I agree with you whole-heartedly, Gary. I always teach my
students that Yahoo is a directory. There are times when it is
perfect (when I'm looking for "sites about ..."). The Mining
Company is usually appropriate for the same searches. There
are other times it won't do (when I'm looking for a specific site).
And, yes, I have sites that have never made the Yahoo "grade",
for whatever reason.
Ann
> 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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