Panic ensued amongst ODP's 47 thousand editors today when news spread that a certain Mr Gates had swallowed up the Open Directory Project, Netscape's figurehead search directory.
In the best Search Engine April Fools trick to date, ODP's entire image has been 'microsofted', even down to the ODP tagline 'Communities do it Better' now reading 'Monopolies do it better'.
The Editor forum was awash with horrified editors until (rather slowly) the penny finally dropped!
















