gregbo - 8:46 pm on May 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

IMO, AV exhausted its financial resources on foolish investments such as shopping.com and lavish NYC parties. If it had managed its costs frugally in the beginning, like G did, it might still be in business, instead of a Y! property.

OTOH, spam is difficult to fight, especially if you have an agressive indexing policy ("we want to store the entire world's information"). A selective policy will cut down on spam but also deny "legit" sources of information access.

I think as long as it is cheap to create sites and links, and indexing is aggressive, spam will continue to be a problem.