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Originally Posted by jollyperv
I got tons of shit listed in yahoo and I didn't pay shit, and I'm talking new sites here. I didn't submit it either. Nor am I listed in Dmoz.
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I don't think you know what the Yahoo "directory" is and thus prove my point of how they fucked it up.
You are listed in the "search results". So is everybody else's bullshit.
Look above the yahoo search input box and click on "directory".
The directory made yahoo what it is because it reviewed all the submissions and therefore had more relevent results than other search engines. Now they give you the same shit as every other search engine.
When a site was first put into the yahoo directory it would recieve 10k hits a day for a shit category listing. Do you get 10k a day when you get listed now?
I'm talking about pre 1999 Yahoo directory...
Yahoo actually used to use Google to return "web search" results.
Instead of paying google all that money they should have hireed more site submission reviews. They had the edge in the directory game but not anymore.
In contrast wikipedia has zeroed in on "relevent result" when you put a term in there you immeditely get a correct answer. All wiki needs to do to eclipse yahoo is to include web results under their normal stuff plus add more web services/entertainment to the site.