microlinx - 11:41 am on Apr 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

Here's an interesting twist:

Of the sites that moved up into my previous position (#2) one site is a direct trademark and copyright violator of IP on our site.

I reported this to Yahoo! who basically replied, "contact that person directly, not us".

We contacted the owner of the site about a year ago, and they still continue to use a very close version of our uspto.gov registered trademark and copyrighted material (they were a former customer of ours).

Where's the enforcement here? What is the violator supposed to do, contact Yahoo themselves and ASK to be removed from the web results listings? Not likely.

This just shows that Yahoo! now supports Intellectual Property theft and I have a BIG problem with that.

The end result seems to be that they have now totally removed MY site from the listings.

I did a site:mydomain.com and my homepage is now at the END of the list. Does that indicate removal or banning?