I'm sure the rest of you have heard the new stories about Yahoo selling porn tapes on Yahoo Shopping. Well, according to this new story they are pulling it. The story goes on to say that they will no longer accept further banner advertising from adult sites. I'm worried that this means removing adult listings isn't far behind. Should I be?
the story is at:
http://biz.yahoo.com/st/010413/23692.html and I have also posted it here:
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Yahoo Pulls the Porn
By Ari Weinberg
The portal giant doesn't want to be a porno giant.
An article in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday pointed out various pornography offerings on Yahoo Shopping. Other news outlets picked up on the story. On Friday morning, Yahoo issued a press release saying that it would remove "adult-related products" from Yahoo Shopping and Yahoo Classifieds. The company also said that it would not sign up any new adult-related banner advertising.
"While Yahoo has offered controlled access to adult products available via the Internet since launching our commerce services more than two years ago, many of our users voiced concerns this week about some of the products sold by merchants on Yahoo shopping. We heard them and swiftly responded," Yahoo COO and President Jeff Mallett said in a statement.
As of Friday morning, Yahoo had already pulled down the Yahoo Shopping link to its adult offerings. However, its search engine, powered by Google, still returns pornographic links, and runs banner ads for sex sites on adult-related searches.
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Addison Brock III
webmaster at
MyGirlz.com
traffic trade?