- ART: Yahoo drops google.
- Posted by Heidi on February 19th, 2004
19 February 2004
Yahoo! drops Google: Webmasters must pay up
Yahoo! has dropped Google results from its search engine in favour of its
own paid-inclusion service.
Commercial sites will now be forced to pay Yahoo! to get their site listed
if they want to benefit from Yahoo!'s large user base. Previously,
webmasters could pick up visitors from Yahoo! by submitting their sites for
free to Google. So far Google has resisted the trend to charge webmasters to
submit their sites to the search engine, making money instead by selling
keyword-triggered adverts alongside search results.
The move follows Yahoo!'s acquisition last year of search technology company
Inktomi, which lists MSN, About, Hotbot and Overture among its partners.
Inktomi charges $40 (¡Ì21) to submit a URL ($25 for subsequent URLs) and
Yahoo! charges $300 (¡Ì159) for commercial sites to enter its directory.
With MSN believed to be developing its own technology to replace its use of
Yahoo!'s results, it promises to get a lot more expensive for webmasters to
draw visitors to their websites from portals.
Article link:
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=3928
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Well looks like I lose a good portion of visitors to my sites since many
came from Yahoo because they
used google results. *sigh*
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- Posted by Marc Bissonnette on February 19th, 2004
"Heidi" <blackcat2@zwallet.com> wrote in
news:bU8Zb.9899$jl.1921@fe2.texas.rr.com:
Yeah, kinda old-ish news. The IAR reported this in late December, IIRC
(though well worth repeating here, since many won't be aware of it.)
FWIW, networksolutions has a link to submit a site for US$39.95 on their
site;
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_U.../inktomi.jhtml
Which submits via Inktomi - which would (I hope) also help to populate
Yahoo links...
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- Posted by Bill Logan on February 19th, 2004
"Heidi" <blackcat2@zwallet.com> wrote in message
news:bU8Zb.9899$jl.1921@fe2.texas.rr.com...
on SE for traffic now come into our own.
For those who do depend on SE, how many would pay to be included - and what
value is there in paying to be listed on page 30067 - or worse?
As I have said before, IMO SEs are great for finding sites but not so good
for being found.
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- Posted by GreyWyvern on February 19th, 2004
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:20:23 GMT, Heidi <blackcat2@zwallet.com> wrote:
You know, all this could be fixed if we gave bots administrative
priviledges. Then they could go through the net and junk any site with
outdated, redundant or generally silly content. After that, the world
would be a better place.
Grey
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- Posted by William Tasso on February 19th, 2004
GreyWyvern wrote:
Great idea - whose first?
/looks around
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- Posted by William Tasso on February 19th, 2004
Bill Logan wrote:
not me - well not on a general purpose site like yahoo.
but, I don't begrudge them charging - they gotta pay the rent - their
visitors will decide if they're providing a good service.
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William Tasso
- Posted by Marc Bissonnette on February 19th, 2004
"Bill Logan" <who@what.com> wrote in news:40353026$1@clear.net.nz:
Bill, you're my kinda guy in that thinking
It is frustrating, a little, to hear some supposed 'experts' go on and on
about how you're nothing without a high google ranking.
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- Posted by William Tasso on February 19th, 2004
Marc Bissonnette wrote:
exactly - take it while it's there, don't grieve when it's gone
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- Posted by Allis on February 20th, 2004
"Heidi" <blackcat2@zwallet.com> wrote in message
news:bU8Zb.9899$jl.1921@fe2.texas.rr.com...
Horsedroppings!
Never paid a dime to Yahoo.
Search: unlimited dialup access
See who's #1
- Posted by Charles Sweeney on February 20th, 2004
"Allis" <allis@allis.com> wrote in message
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themooseisloose.net
Who's that then?
I wonder if that's "aboot this hoose"?
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