[Sigia-l] "Best Bets" the Yahoo way

[David Heller]

Yea! Information Architecture, meet capitalism. Capitalism, meet Information
Architecture. ;)

B/c we all know that users only want results by those who can afford to be
included in the result set.

-- dave

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Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:22 AM
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Subject: [Sigia-l] "Best Bets" the Yahoo way

"What our users care about is the relevancy of results, not whether the
source paid to participate," said Tim Cadogan, a vice president in Yahoo's
search unit.

Yahoo to Charge for Guaranteeing a Spot on Its Index
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/business/02net.html>

Is this the new 'standard' in search?

----
Ziya

Architecture is politics.


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