Open Directory May Compete with Ask Jeeves, Local Sites

from the expanding-businesses dept

A long article from News.com about how AOL’s Open Directory (formerly, Netscape’s Open Directory, before which it was NewHoo) may soon be launching services that compete with Ask Jeeves, and local guides. Of course, AOL won’t comment, and the sites they might be targeting give the usual “we’re not scared, no really” answers.


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