Kirby - 4:12 pm on Apr 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Let's say there are two sites that are in the same industry. Site A has better content and provides a better experience for Yahoo searchers than site B. The site B webmaster is better at gaming the Yahoo search engine to boost their rankings. To best serve the interests of Yahoo searchers we should be displaying site A, not site B. I think that's pretty obvious. There's no reason for us to reward site B for being less valuable to web searchers but being smarter at breaking the rules.

Does site B have any valuable content? If so, then it should be presented as well. Just because they gamed the system doesnt equate to a poor user experience. Are those at Yahoo who judge content and value to the the user qualified or familiar enough in that specific industry to make that call?

Yahoo cant even get redirects right, but you can tell me that Yahoo can prejudge the user experience?