HackingLawyer - 3:29 am on Jan 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

The value of Yahoo was in their listing sites using human editors based on content. The value of objective hand editing has been eroded by paid inclusion.

Google, on the other hand, uses technology for rankings and includes most any site in the directory (unless they play dirty tricks to increase their visibility).

It would ruin Google's value as an information source to require payment for inclusion in the directory.