" Yahoo! has let slip that it will soon exclude Inktomi paid inclusion URLs from its main results. Quite simply, if you've subscribed your URLs to the Inktomi index, then you'll be found in Yahoo! searches until 15th April. After that - YOU get dumped and have to pay to get back into Yahoo! You WILL still be found over at MSN and HotBot where Inktomi results are still primary though.
The options are simple:
- Pay to be in Inktomi and be guaranteed to be in Yahoo until April (and the lesser noticed, for now, MSN until your next bill)
- Don't pay to be in Inktomi and hope to be found in an honest crawl and remain forever (at least until MSN dumps Inktomi and then you're nowhere again!)
- Pay to be in Yahoo! and be guaranteed to be in there until your next bill
- Don't pay to be in Yahoo! and be somewhere, sometimes, but who knows how and where - or why!
- Do nothing and be found for everything at HotBot (whatever that is!)
- There's always this: Dig a big whole and throw all of your money in it. Then, take the eye of a Newt and the wing of a bat. Boil the cauldron... "
posted by Jen @ 7:32 AM
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