The article from Webmaster Central clarifies that the use of scraped content to increase the volume of a site violates Googles webmaster guidelines. ODP and Wikipedia are named as examples for frequently-copied high quality sources.

An overview by Bill Slawski.

Loren Baker reviews AOL’s relationship with the ODP and provides suggestions about how the project can reinvent itself.

Danny Sullivan provides a timeline for the major events in the history of AOL Search. Mentions their 1998 purchase of Netscape Inc, which included the Open Directory Project as part of the purchase

Jimmy Wales explains the motivations behind his launch of Wikia Search. ODP is named as a Web 1.0 community aimed at organizing the Internet.

Stephen Pitts offers his perspective on the launch of the DMOZ blog.