ZDNet: Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
- 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.
- http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2107621,00.htm

Search Day: The Search Engine Spam Police, Part 1
- Representatives of the ODP and Looksmart spell out what sorts of submissions to these directories are considered spam.
- http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2160011

Google, Open Directory Get Foolish
- Search Engine watch remarks about Google and the Open Directory's antics on April 1st.
- http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2164671

Search Day: Open Directory Project Launches ODP Public Forums
- Search Engine Watch comments.
- http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2159641

Is Yahoo Losing the Plot?
- Ben Hammersley's dissection of Yahoo in The Guardian makes favourable mention of the ODP.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,708557,00.html

Open Directory Project Search Results and ODP Status
- 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).
- http://www.searchengineguide.com/orbidex/2002/0405_orb1.html

Pranksters Rig Web for April Fools
- CNet covers April Fools Day at the Open Directory.
- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873177.html

MSN Delivers Another Brick in "the Wall"
- MSN acquires the world's largest web directory.
- http://www.atomicwidget.com/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html

Microsoft buys the Open Directory -- or Not
- Pandia discusses the Microsoft purchase of the Open Directory.
- http://www.pandia.com/sw-2002/11-god.html