New SERP's - Observations

Old free listings were grandfathered - everyone else has to pay

[Arctrust]

Hey Guys:

We just seen the new SERP's and I was amazed to see all the old grandfathered listings appear and rank very well on the new SERPS.

Regardless of what we may have heard, there is a slant to these new listings and they are as unethical as you will find anywhere.

Google will be the SE of the future.

Yahoo has sold their integetity.

[mfishy]

Not sure what you mean. Most sites will be crawled regardless of pfi or not. If a site has been around for a while, it will rank on it's own merit - nothing to do with "grandfathering".

On a side note, this forum has turned into a real bit$@ festival. It's too bad, because Yahoo supplies some important traffic and some unemotional observations would be nice.

[Tim]

I am not sure what you mean by grandfathered. Our policy towards free crawled content is that we want to discover and include as much quality content as we can for free. I am not sure where all the misunderstanding about the 4/15 date came from as it was never communicated by anyone at Yahoo that we were going to change anything in regards to how we crawl the web. The 4/15 date only was the end of the free trial of Yahoo traffic for the URLs in the Inktomi Search Submit program and nothing else.
Tim

[mayor]

I can't see any change at all in my non-paid search.yahoo traffic following the April 15 drop of free Yahoo trial to Ink PFI customers.

Nor do I hear the Ink PFI people whining. So it looks to me like, as Tim says, April 15 was a non-event for most people.