TravelSite - 2:54 pm on Jun 9, 2006 (gmt 0)

At the risk of offending everyone, I think this is great. Beyond great in fact.

I assume that this will stop lots of annoying pops ups, spyware, re-directions, websites trying to install viruses, etc - making the image search actually safe to use for once - in short making it a million times better than it currently is.

There seems to be webmasters who deliberately make sites to get traffic from Yahoo Images - only to instantly redirect them away to dodgy sites or to install spyware / viruses on a users pc. This should hopefully put an end to that.

This is far, far better for users in my opinion.

If a user wants to use something that requires javascript or active X they can click to visit the uncached version.

Equally if webmasters don't want Yahoo to index images then they can use robots.txt on image folders.