Chris Oakes writes about Lycos adopting the Open Directory Project into its search results and notes a similar move recently made by Bomis.

Danny Sullivan writes about the new changes at AltaVista and mentions they are using their own version of the Open Directory.

Danny Sullivan writes about the launch of Netscape Open Directory and its relationship with the ODP.

Danny Sullivan covers the Lycos decision to abandon its crawler-based search engine for directory data. Discusses the large number of ODP volunteer editors and compares their editing power to that of Yahoo’s staff.

Danny Sullivan discusses the new features powering AOL Search and mentions its inclusion of matching categories from the Open Directory.

The history of the Open Directory Project.

Article discusses Yahoo’s move to charge a fee for an express review service and the industry debate on the issue.

Article explains how the many volunteer editors of ODP are building the directory.

Article discusses Netscape’s unconventional move of licensing its Open Directory data to Lycos for free.

Articles explains that Perlhoo is an Open Source application for building catalogs in a cost effective way. Mentions future versions will include import filters for data from the ODP.