mfishy - 12:03 pm on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

Nobody is arguing with you whether or not Yahoo hand tweaks in general actually occur

OK, it looked like some people had their head in the sand on this one - thinking yahoo didn't often hand pick serps. Seemed odd as yahoo was when google was feeding them the serps - certain terms were just Y directory selected by people (100% different than the serps google showed). Those serps remain the same 1.5 years later, even with the addition of their new algo. Then, they started feeding msn serps after they bought INK, and the hand picked serps were not displayed on msn.

The hand picking of termsdefinitely increased, if that is what this discussion is about. I have received messages from people in many industries stating the same.

If Y! is going to go this route on more terms, I only hope they find a way to update the categories and pick a wider variety in terms of "types" of sites, as they seem to largely ignore the niche stuff thatr eally focuses on a singular topic in favor of mega sites with a page or two with a definiton or something of the like.

Actually one has to question whether the editors at Y! EVER look at the directory serps they hard code again, after they have been selected as no updating has occured in a long, long time.