Search Engine watch remarks about Google and the Open Directory's antics on April 1st

Ben Hammersley's dissection of Yahoo in The Guardian makes favourable mention of the ODP.

In on the joke in Silicon Valley

Pandia discusses the Microsoft purchase of the Open Directory.

MSN acquires the world's largest web directory.

Reports on ODP's usage in the search engine world as well as the April 1 prank of apparently being bought by Microsoft and changed to the Microsoft Directory Project aka the Gates Open Directory (GOD).

CNet covers April Fools Day at the Open Directory.

Search Engine Watch comments.

Representatives of the ODP and Looksmart spell out what sorts of submissions to these directories are considered spam.

Microsoft's MSN has launched the Gates Open Directory, otherwise known as GOD, which seeks to simplify copyright on the Web by purchasing all copyrighted material.