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As modest as it appears, the Open Directory is a true powerhouse in web-searching! It provides search data to many of the most widely-used search engines, and it itself is a first rate directory of the best of the Web.

When you book a table on OpenTable.com, your reservation is instantly recorded in the restaurant's computerized reservation book - the same one the restaurant's host uses to track all reservations. (It's the black terminal you may see when you arrive at the restaurant.) The reservation book is only as good as the person entering the information. Guess what? They did not have our reservations for the New Emeril restaurant on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. They had the name spelled wrong, the wrong number in our party, and put us in smoking. wow.. could they do anything right?