Comments on: Yahoo launches new search engine, drops Google as search provider

By: Shelley Goodwin

Shelley Goodwin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent work! Thanks for the easy-to-understand summary

By: Peter Davis

Peter Davis — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I wouldn’t suggest to people to rush out and start doing massive paid submissions to Ink as a way to get into Yahoo. Have you tested this theory to see how it works in practice?

By: WebSage

WebSage — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Paid submission is of value to new sites, not indexed yet, and dynamic sites which would have difficulty getting indexed.

I have tested paid submission with Inktomi for a number of my clients. As far as the Yahoo paid submission is not going to be available until April 15th, 2004, it is only a wild guess on how it will work.

With the recent trends to see informational sites prefered with certain search engines’ algorithms, I do believe it is in the interest of some small businesses to be on the search engine site by participating in their paid inclusion program.

By: yahoonot

yahoonot — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

these execs at yahoo JUST DONT GET it… their search results suck ass (i mean big time). i never use anything but Google (and i dont work there, just in case you are wondering). what difference does it make if they add 100 different frills like images and audio and crap like that if their results are not relevant. no way i would still search on yahoo!. and these guys have a knack of buying “cheap” companies like viewpoint and inktomi.. both these companies were valued very low for a good reason – THEIR PRODUCTS SUCK.. so why buy them.. but the Yahoo folks.. man are they in for a nasty surprise.. yahoo is going nowhere but down.. Just another stupid dot com will bite the dust