steveb - 12:09 am on Mar 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

"One of Yahoo's competitors is indexing everything for free. I can't see how the PFI model can stand the test of time."

It can't and Yahoo is admitting this.

Tim keeps saying Yahoo will do a competitive job of free crawling the web. People are skeptical since Ink never did that, but the point is, that if Tim is right, then this is a whole new ballgame.

Bad judgment on Yahoo's part to release this before adequately free crawling. It sounds like some bean counter's idea "Put up the PFI before we crawl decently and some scared folks will sign up." Some shortsighted merit in that, but overall a bad idea.

Still, I certainly hope Tim is right, and really really look forward to him being right.

In other words, nobody should PFI unless they have over 50,000 pages and all those pages sell a product that costs over $3.