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Directories – How to Make Yours Stand Out | MyPR

4 June 2026 by Alan

I remember with fondness the OPD (Open Directory Project) from the early days of the internet. At one stage the ODP was the number one go to place to find new and interesting web sites. Manually created and curated one could say that it was the forerunner of other high manual contribution sites like Wikipedia.

The ‘koel deur die kerk’ moment for ODP was the day that they agreed to allow Google (then a fledgling search engine) to scrape and use their data to provide seed sites and results for people searching for things on the internet. For many years Google carried a ‘Powered by ODP’ pay…

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Published on: 2026-06-04 13:26:54

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