[Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?

[Christina Wodtke]

Yahoo is a portal, along with MSN, AOL, and shortly Google (IMO).

Yahoo has a large number of services, both free (supported by advertising)
and paid.
These include mail, a proper search engine (actually three), a directory, an
auto listing, a shopping aggregator, a mapping tool, has music (Launch),
jobs (hotJobs) finance, news, movie listings, tv listings, a calendar, photo
storage and management, personals and a hell of a lot more.

To say Yahoo! is a directory is to say Yahoo is mail-- you are a blind many
describing an elephant as a snake.

BTW, with the addition of groups, mail and soon IM, I think we will see
Google as not a search engine.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BJ Cook" <bcook at gate1travel.com>
To: "Christina Wodtke" <cwodtke at eleganthack.com>; "SIGIA-L"
<sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?


> Another interesting point is to note that Yahoo is a directory, not a
search
> engine.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Christina Wodtke
> To: SIGIA-L
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?
>
>
> I'm not sure how seriously I'd take this: the author doesn't seem to know
> yahoo, inktomi, altavista and fast are all just yahoo now.
> Also, he mentions forums as a good place to list your URL (great, he
doesn't
> mention the important of relevant text around a link, so now forums are
> probably going to get linkspammed), but most forums are currently
> uncrawlable. However, he's dead on regarding directories, and that
actually
> affects placement as well as getting crawled.
>
> Were it me, I'd not pay for search placement, but would pay for directory
> listing.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Listera" <listera at rcn.com>
> To: "SIGIA-L" <sigia-l at asis.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:43 PM
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?
>
>
> > Forget paying Yahoo to get included, here's an argument for not
bothering
> > with SE submissions at all:
> >
> > <http://evolt.org/article/rdf/20/60314/index.html>
> >
> > Too simplistic?
> >
> > Ziya
> > Nullius in Verba
> >
> >
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