outland88 - 7:21 pm on Feb 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'll take bets the new Yahoo Paid Inclusion will be broken within the first week. People will flood it especially spammers. In all likelihood it will be understaffed and things won't get sorted out for six months. We've all seen these scenarios on the Internet.

As for Yahoo being organized, I'm already seeing complaints that the vast majority of directory sites who paid $300 aren’t being included in the regular searches. Why is that? Greed. Yahoo wants to nail people for both paid inclusion and directory listings. If they include the directory listings in the regular results it will hurt them financially. Also if directory sites are included the crawler will probably crawl deep. This would deprive Yahoo of millions of dollars for pages eligible for paid inclusion.

Currently the new Yahoo is a spammers paradise. Any site I didn’t pay anybody for is included. And to be candid they were mainly poor sites. Anything I paid PT for is not included in Ink or Yahoo and I just get the run-a-round from them.