outland88 - 4:58 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

From what I have learned Inktomi has never really had much spam prevention to begin with except for what was reported. The new Yahoo doesn't seem much better. They run a subjective system. What is really needed is a consistent automated solution like Google has. Since Inktomi allows so much spam to begin with evaluating any already penalized domain, except in a few situations, would probably not change the verdict. Its like asking the IRS to redo your taxes because you think there's a mistake.

Right now under one very major keyword we use one company is occupying 16 of the first 20 results with 16 domains using duplicate content. Thats happening because Yahoo has few spam filters and is crawling about every piece of junk out there. Ranking sites by meta tags is dangerous business. Good spam filtering helps everybody except spammers.