ncgimaker - 10:53 pm on Apr 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

"One thing that really bugs me is the high rating for "google-ad Spam-directory sites", not the major sites, the little junk sites, with google ads at top and my stuff and YOUR stuff below."

I disagree. I have a site that has a number 1 on a very good phrase now on yahoo. It also has 8-12 other major phrases now in the new yahoo.

What I notice is that the phrases are on topic, but the pages they link to are the ones *without* the Google adsense. It's almost as if yahoo favour pages without adsense. So I have pages targetting "fluffy green widgets" that have adsense on them but I have other pages that only mention those terms in passing (and without adsense) and some of those 'buried-non-targetted' pages now have top slots on yahoo.

So I have a suspicion that Yahoo favours pages without adsense and your suggestion (of yahoo returning a lot of scraper sites with adsense) doesn't fit my hypothesis.

BTW right now, I have the most referrals from yahoo, then msn, then bbc.co.uk search engine, then scraper sites, then google so I'm considering going with my hunch and dumping the adsense to see if it makes a difference to my other pages ranking on yahoo.