SciNet Science Search (Power by OPD)

A new science and technolgy directory

[fathom]

SciNet [specialized-search-engines.com]

It would appear they plan others (theme based) since their main page indicates "coming soon".

[rafalk]

Unless they start displaying the attribution statement, as required by the ODP guidelines, they won't be using ODP data for long.

[fathom]

Interesting observation rafalk.

I clicked on the "powered by OPD" and went to another site

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My question now is: Who actually receives that $99?

[rafalk]

Who actually receives that $99?

The people who actually developed ODP++.

[heini]

Yep. You don't pay for the data but for the download, slicing, implementing. You could as well get the RDF, slice it, and stuff it into a directory script. Lots of work though...