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

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

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

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