Open Directory Project

Rich Skrenta sets out in spring of 1998 to create the web's most comprehensive directory. By late June, there are 200 editors, 27,000 sites, and 2,000 categories on what is dubbed the "GnuHoo" directory. Netscape acquires GnuHoo in 1998 and subsequently renames it the Open Directory Project. Today, this directory is the largest directory on the web and is used by more than twenty major search engines.
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