CNET News.com: "On the Net, there is such a thing as free labor". ODP and AOL use of volunteers.
CNN: Search engines to fit any style - Danny Sullivan article
Internet.com: Perlhoo Featured on Internet.com's WebReference Site
Netscape Launches Next Generation Internet Search Service: The search is based on the Open Directory Project, which offers 675,000 sites in over 100,000 categories and from 229 countries in 44 languages. For search terms that don't appear in the ODP, Netscape queries Google.