Yahoo! Incorporating LookSmart Listings?

The tracking system is reporting it. Anyone else?

[skibum]

Just checked up on the ol' LookSmart campaign for a client and interestingly enough Yahoo! is the number 4 referring site behind **cough** Irresolvable, some other site I never heard of before, and MSN.

Yahoo! are you working with LookSmart in some capacity?

Anyone else seeing this?

[outland88]

Looksmart in the past periodically bumped the Ink results from the Ink partners and replaced them with their own. Another words one saw the other as a dupe much to often. To me that was always the problem with Inktomi database. It crawled so much that it eventually you were going to have duplicate content of a lot of web sites. Normally I found most hijackers, copyright violators, and trademark thefts through their databases. People who you never thought were hijacking you showed up.

I assumed then the databases were distinct but I was latter told they were not. They used a coding system to draw from the same one.

I see what you’re saying about the Looksmart results but I’m seeing it as whole pages drawn from MSN. MSN seems to alternate between using LS data and not using it.

I’ve wondered since day one whether these combining and recombining of databases aren’t backfiring royally in Yahoo. That’s why you could never had much stability in Inktomi. Pages were crawled and indexed but latter dumped for no apparent reason. Nobody at Inktomi through the years seemed interested in fixing the problem because the fix was paid inclusion. It seems to me if you even laid a minor spam algo over what Ink was already doing sites would start dissappearing left and right.

Many people seemed to feel a lot of well linked pages overcame the problem but that, in most cases, took a lot of pages. Thats why spam seemed to proliferate in Ink.

Bottom line I don't see how Yahoo could correct most of the problems in less than a year. And that would be quick.