If you use AdSense - will Yahoo! search ignore you?

[webpro00801]

I have a pretty major site in my category - and a lot of traffic (360k uniques on January). I was always treated well by all the major search engines, but Google seems to really love us. A couple of months ago my main URL was dropped by alltheweb - several thousand pages gone, yet to return.
Now the more I read I see that Yahoo! owns alltheweb - and I am starting to have conspiracy theories... is it possible that Yahoo! search could drop someone if there site is very popular and uses AdSense?
Let me know what you think!

[Hunter]

No.

[Sanenet]

Why would they? It's not as if Adsense is directly compteting with anything they have!

[cornwall]

I do not think you have any need to believe that Adsense is your problem with Yahoo and/or Alltheweb.

I have many sites that do better on Yahoo now than on Google, and carry AdSense

I have never read anywhere that it could possibly be a problem

[webpro00801]

In answer to why would they -

If you do a Yahoo! search, and you end up on a site that has AdSense through that search, and someone clicks on an AdSense ad, Yahoo! effectively put money in Google's pocket - seems pretty obvious to me that having sites in your index that link to sites that are fill of advertising for another index is a conflict of monetary interest.

[webpro00801]

"I have many sites that do better on Yahoo now than on Google, and carry AdSense"

Right - but that is now - what happens in a few months?
This seems to me to be something to consider/worry about it...

[Net_Wizard]

We'll wait and see where this is going.

But given that people are starting to notice that some popular site are not included in the index which just happened to be Y competitors it is not hard to believe that site with adsense would be excluded as well.

But, Y better be careful about it because Google can do the same. If tomorrow, G suddenly decide to drop most of Y urls in their index (18 million for Y alone not including Amazon and other holdings) I think that would have a huge impact on Y.

It would be an interesting watch :) two sharks fighting each other but I'll put my bet with the G shark.