NewHoo: Ten years ago today, I first starting writing publicly about search engines. If we had blogs back then, I suppose I would have been a search blogger. But we didn't. We hand-coded our HTML, walked through the snow for eight miles to FTP...
NewHoo -- later renamed The Open Directory -- was born to provide a solution to the invisibility problem. Been wondering what's going on with your Open Directory submission? The Resource Zone site has long offered a way to ask ODP editors to do a...
Formerly known as NewHoo, it was launched in June 1998. Below is a list of search engines where volunteers or members of a community help create the listings, such as by managing categories or submitting sites they like.
NewHoo Becomes Netscape Open Directory, 11/98 Coverage of Netscape Search is no longer maintained by Search Engine Watch. This is because the service has declined in popularity and operate very similar to AOL Search.
Netscape acquires the NewHoo directory. Netscape launches a branded version of the former NewHoo directory. Articles from August 2004 and before are shown in the Search History Articles section below.
In 1998 we did a project called NewHoo, which was acquired by Netscape/AOL, and is now called the Open Directory Project (ODP). Topix.net combines an excellent news search engine with two other hot technologies: local search and personalization.
Initially called NewHoo (or GnuHoo, a tip of the hat toward the open source movement that inspired the directory), it was renamed after the directory was purchased by Netscape, bowing to pressure from Yahoo.
The Open Directory (formerly NewHoo) is a human-compiled guide to the web, not a search engine that gets its listings automatically by crawling your pages. NewHoo Becomes Netscape Open Directory, 11/98
Many readers will recall when I first wrote about NewHoo, a web directory using volunteer editors that launched in June 1998. Netscape acquired NewHoo in November 1998, and the company pledged at the time that anyone would be able to use...
In fact, NewHoo was renamed the Open Directory to underscore the fact that its information was free for reuse. One reason is that NewHoo had very much a "work for the web" attitude that inspired its volunteers.
Many readers will recall when I first wrote about NewHoo, a web directory using volunteer editors that launched in June 1998. Netscape acquired NewHoo in November 1998, and the company pledged at the time that anyone would be able to use...
Many readers will recall when I first wrote about NewHoo, a web directory using volunteer editors that launched in June 1998. Netscape acquired NewHoo in November 1998, and the company pledged at the time that anyone would be able to use...
Many readers will recall when I first wrote about NewHoo, a web directory using volunteer editors that launched in June 1998. Netscape acquired NewHoo in November 1998, and the company pledged at the time that anyone would be able to use...
NewHoo: Yahoo Built By The Masses The Search Engine Update, June 22, 1998 http://searchenginewatch.com/subscribers/articles/9806-newhoo.html The Search Engine Update is a twice-monthly update of search engine news.
NewHoo: Yahoo Built By The Masses The Search Engine Update, June 22, 1998 http://searchenginewatch.com/subscribers/articles/9806-newhoo.html The idea of Internet Keywords is simple. Users should be able to enter a word or words into the web...
Netscape has created a branded version of the former NewHoo directory that it acquired last November and begun integrating it into the Netscape site. So to be clear, there is the Open Directory, which was NewHoo, and the Netscape Open Directory...
Netscape has created a branded version of the former NewHoo directory that it acquired last November and begun integrating it into the Netscape site. The name Netscape Open Directory may sound familiar, because that's originally what Netscape...
Netscape has created a branded version of the former NewHoo directory that it acquired last November and begun integrating it into the Netscape site. The name Netscape Open Directory may sound familiar, because that's originally what Netscape...
NewHoo Becomes Netscape Open Directory In contrast, it seems NewHoo editors have been working under an esprit de corps, inspired by the opportunity to build a new and valuable resource for the web community.
Traffic was nowhere near major portal level," said Rich Skrenta, NewHoo's former CEO who now leads engineering for the Netscape directory. Of course, NewHoo's top level subject of Spelelogy is woefully under populated when compared to Yahoo.
