search engine domination

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Bill

...like yahoo did when it started it's database a few years back - oh wait, so it's happened before...

LOR is still listed in the exact same place it's always been on Yahoo & the traffic dropped off as soon as the spammed up the index page. There's not a lot of people actually "searching" on Yahoo anymore - they click on this & that on the index, but few actually search.

At least Google asks you if you want to clutter up their index page

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Greenie

LOR is still listed in the exact same place it's always been on Yahoo

LOR is one of the well known exceptions. You may recall when Jay posted here congratulating you on that fact.

I'm not tracking LL positions on yahoo now, so I have no idea if they have discontinued the policy, but when it started, some yahoo wonk stated that yahoo preferred to link directly to content rather than linking to other directories that then linked to content.

The point of the yahoo example is that SE's have decided in the past to remove whole classes of websites, so, it's not impossible that it could happen again.

I think eman didn't formulate his initial presentation as well as he could have - as he presented it, there's only one logical answer - yeah, if linklists are removed from google, it would suck, and everyone would have to move to a different model, but there ain't squat we can do about it to stop it.