• An opinion of Sergey Brin, the president and co-founder of Google.com:
  "... I think something along these lines is certainly a good idea. ..."
  (Look here for details.)

• It is the main topic of Ph.D. research of Maxim Lifantsev.

• Research and development for the project have been supported since September 1999 in part by National Science Foundation from grants IRI-9711635 and MIP-9710622.

• News items about the project have appeared in several places including
  • LinuxToday
  • LinuxMall (search for "Lifantsev")
  • Freshmeat
  • OpenResources
  (Go here for more details.)

• Links to the project exist from several places including
  • LinuxResources, that is, Specialized Systems Consultants (search for "Open GRiD")
  • The Open Directory Project
  • Freshmeat
  • LinuxApps (search the site for "Open GRiD")
  (Look here for more details.)

• About 21% of the visitors spend more than 20 minutes reading the main project description document.
  Other 12% read it for more than 10 minutes.
  (These statistics are based on 581 visitors for whom is was possible to record the reading time.)

• The current poll results about the ideas of the project have 6.1 to 1.2 pro-to-against ratio.
  (Go here for details.)

See also the "Why should I bother reading it?" question in the FAQ.

Here are excerpts from some messages about the Open GRiD project:

• June 9, 1999 (a message in my comment book)

  Really great ideas about searching the Net here. I've been plagued by the same thoughts. Here's my solution:
  http://www.knowpost.com

• April 2, 1999 (from a message on an InterMix Forum)

  I spent about twentyfive minutes looking at this site and at a few of the pages to which it provides links. I had the impression that the work of Lifantsev deserves to be studied intensively. It seems possible that after such study I would propose that this discussion group (SCFN with CORBA, of which I am the moderator) would throw its weight (not more than that of a feather at this time) behind Maxim Lifantsev's Open GRiD Project (Open Global Ranking Search Engine and Directory Project).

• February 15, 1999 (from an e-mail)

  It's a very interesting idea; I'm an Open Directory Editor, and you're right about the limitations of ODP. If you can set up something better, I'm sure many people will join you...

• February 14, 1999 (from a thread in Open Directory Project forum)

  I've just read it - it's just what the Net needs. I particularly like the idea of customers being able to tell other people what they think of a company's products - wahheyy! watch those Microsoft stocks crash!

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	First posted on June. 18, 1999 and last updated on Dec. 17, 2000 by Maxim Lifantsev
	Comments, Suggestions?