Description: Press articles in 1998 on or featuring GnuHoo, NewHoo and the Netscape Open Directory.
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- News.com: Netscape Buys Freeware Directory Jim Hu and Jeff Pelline discuss Netscape’s acquisition of NewHoo and the strategy behind the purchase.
- Denounce: Netscape Acquires NewHoo! Community Directory Project for $40.05 Billion A satirical look at the news, with a large element of fiction.
- Grohol.com: The Future of Online Directories? Article discussing the history and future of ODP. Briefly mentions AOL’s acquisition of Netscape.
- Slashdot Netscape buys NewHoo.
- ZDNet: Netscape Acquires NewHoo Matthew Broersma discusses the acquisition and compares the scalability of NewHoo’s volunteer community to Yahoo’s paid staff powered directory.
- ZDNet: Open Source Gathering Steam Discusses both Netscape and IBM releasing source code for their Gecko browser and Jikes Java compiler respectively. Netscape’s acquisition of NewHoo is mentioned along with their plans to rename it Open Directory Project.
- Netly News - GnuHoo Wants You Article by Lev Grossman on the launch of GnuHoo. [IICM archive]
- Wired: NewHoo's New Home Netscape purchases NewHoo and renames the service Netscape Open Directory.
- Wired: The Distributed Yahoo: 'NewHoo' Chris Oakes reviews the early days of NewHoo and compares it with competitors Yahoo and Mining Company.
- Wired: Netscape Acquires NewHoo Article discusses the Netscape purchase of NewHoo and the reaction from volunteer editors.