At 12:09 PM -0400 1/8/99, Charlotte Entrepreneurs Online, Inc. wrote:
>Do other webmasters who are responsible for indexing their clients sites
>find it difficult to get their sites listed in Yahoo?
Yep.
>Are you of the impression that Yahoo is a "search engine"?
I think it depends on your definition. To the layperson, yes, they are a
search engine. But I do think "directory" is more accurate since they
primarily organize their listings in hierarchal fashion.
>According to the Cust. Support Mgr., they are a "directory". They are a
>directory that is striving to list "only the best of the best" of the
>internet. They have criteria, but "that criteria is not publicly
>available". They have editors who review our sites and based on this
>criteria, which he did offer is "content driven", yea or nay our sites. But
>the real kicker is that according to this same person, they are so in
>control of their own destiny that "even if they choose to ignore 1,000
>requests, that's their perogative".
They are the 800 lb. gorilla of the "search engine/directory" market, and
really one of the BIG Internet players overall, so they can do what they
want.
But part of the reason that I like Yahoo so much is precicely because they
are so picky. If I go looking for online grocery stores, for instance, I'm
pretty sure that I'll find that on Yahoo. Lord knows what might show up
during an Alta Vista search!
I don't like how hard it is to register, but I do like the overall results.
How's that for ambiguity?
>My conclusion, as it has been all along, and was confirmed during my
>conversation with this Yahoo representative, is that they no longer find it
>"resourceful" to serve the internet community as a whole...instead focusing
>their attentions to the small minority with the big checkbooks...their
>advertisers.
I'm not sure that I see that happening. I think if Yahoo were to go too far
in that direction that someone else would pick up the slack. I think that
perhaps in being so picky they are serving the Internet community. No one
says that a "search engine" has to list every submission it receives.
Frankly, I think they'd all work a lot better and intimidate less often if
the submission criteria were more selective!
I'm not a Yahoo apologist. It does take insanely long to register any site
with them, and they seem to approach it in an arrogant fashion. But I'm
most concerned with results, and I pretty much like the results.
-- Gary
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