Google + Yahoo = Awesome
 

Anyone else seeing an increase in search engine traffic as a result of Yahoo using the best engine in the world to influence its results?

Yeah, I guess all you freebie fuckers got a thrill out of the "merger" there. When you have 100's of paid sites, it kinda sucks though.

I'm loving it. :)

How long ago are we talking? This "merge" happened a while ago, eh?

Speak for yourself... some of us who paid thousands of dollars for inclusion into Yahoo are getting royaly screwed. Not that I'm fucking bitter or anything.

WG

bingo!

:glugglug

Its gotta hurt those that paid for inclusion under the recent rebilling system even more..
:glugglug

Me 2...:smokin :rasta :GFYBand

It's nice for people listed in google, but unfair for those that paid for inclusions at Yahoo. I wonder if people will pay to be listed ever again.

Someone made a thread about this a while ago. Said he charged back his yahoo listing cost, successfully.

Nope

Hopefully this will fuck them for a while with paid inclusions.

I have a few site in the Yahoo directory from when it was free.

Also I noticed that they aren't using the same algo that google is. They are using the link pop of old algo which is doing very well for me :D

I dunno... is 2k/day good?

i've been steadily working the search engines for years now and i am very pleased with the results. here is just this months se refferals from www.jays-xxx-links.com:

www.google.com
hits: 2133 12.3%
search.yahoo.com
hits: 1998 11.52%
Bookmark or direct
hits: 1096 6.32%
aolsearch.aol.com
hits: 672 3.87%
search.netscape.com
hits: 315 1.81%
www.google.de
hits: 292 1.68%
www.google.ca
hits: 211 1.21%
google.yahoo.com
hits: 160 0.92%
aolsearch.aol.co.uk
hits: 106 0.61%
www.altavista.com
V 85 0.49%
www.google.co.uk
hits: 76 0.43%
search.aol.com
hits: 57 0.32%

there's a ton more smallers ones too

if any of you webmaster are serious about working google pr and trading links to stay on top and have sites with pr4 or higher icq me at 62835707

From what I've heard, most people were royally screwed the second their $600 left their account. I think it's a good movement for Yahoo, and surfers around the world. I'm sorry to hear that it didn't pan out well for you.

Yeah, Yahoo really screwed their paid listings on this one.

I'll take you up on that offer. Anyone else ar PR4 or higher can contact me, as well. ICQ in my sig below:

:BangBang: YAHOO

fucking Yahoo cocksuckers can blow me

:mad:
BV

THEY'RE PAID INCLUSION PROGRAM BLOWS BALLS
STICK WITH THE GOOGLE TRAFFIC
YAHOO IS BECOMING PART OF THE PAST

I dont get many search engine users, I don't know what it is, i guess people just don't type "ducky" when searching for their porn :)

I agree it was probably a good move in terms of keeping eyeballs from surfers. Was it a good business decision? I tend to disagree. They basically are saying we're abandoning the $600/inclusion model (not directly, but whose gonna pay it now), and are banking on PPC revenue from sponsored links from overture. So, to sum it up, it seems Yahoo is no longer a search engine but a starting portal and they are doing whatever it takes to retain eyeballs. A real shame since they just shot a revenue stream away.

I'm in no way big potatoes to their sales revenue, but I had over 100 listings in Yahoo which has lost over 70% of traffic because of this move. Think I'll renew a single listing? Think again Yahoo...

WG

Yahoo's financials from last quarter stated that 60% of their revenue came from paid listings. I wonder how they plan to keep that up?

If yahoo was smart they would have kept it they way it was & accepted that they cant compete with google... and let google be the best search engine and instead focus on there portal stuff.And be #1 in that.
DUMB DUMB Move by them. It will be interesting to see what they do when there stock tumbles after profits decrese.

Probably Overture's paid listings dominated that 60%. There's only so much you can make for $600/listing. It does make more financial sense to charge per click when you have the volume of Yahoo. Just a shame they screwed us like this, I think the combination of the two was best since paid listings dominated all listings essentially.

A shame for Yahoo...
WG

If google starts using the yahoo directory instead of the ODP, the Yahoo revenues will skyrocket. If.

I wish too, but they'll never do it. We both know Yahoo is in it for the money and will list pretty much anyone who can pay the $600 fee. DMOZ is not money driven and is supposedly more ethical.

Still, I wish your case would happen :Graucho
WG

Google has been all about making the best SE for the surfer, not making the most money. So their search results are better. It's that simple. So, I'm glad that yahoo is now starting to use google. Their technology is far superior than that of any other engine.

true and they pay now google many millions for having the right to display their results on the directory...... go figure

Yahoo has been using Google for a long time now/

XXXJay,

I tried to look at your high ranking page and it trys to download a virus. You may want to check it out.

Heh. They are becoming part of the future. Yahoo is using google to influence their search results. ;)

Yes, I heard that they set it up a few months ago or something, but never really noticed a change until a week or so ago. Does anyone know the specifics on this?

They all seem fine to me. What happened?

It's kicking ass on my #1 listing... as long as I keep the #1 spot...