Re: Yahoo!

From: Michael Martinez <Michael_at_xenite.org>
Date: Tue 21 Nov 2000 10:48:26 -0500

MYRIAM WARSON <myriam_at_expataccess.com> WROTE:
> I agree, we also submitted our second site to yahoo.
> This site is totally different in content and
> readership but linked to our first site and got
> rejected. We never even got an answer to our appeal.
> What a waste of money and bad service.

Look, I could complain about Yahoo! all day long
myself, if I wanted to. I run dozens of Web sites,
mostly from one domain. They routinely reject the
majority of my submissions without explanation even
though the content is largely unique and submitted to
what I feel are appropriate categories (although they
do have a bad case of category overlap that may be
leading many of us to submit to inappropriate
categories).

Nonetheless, some of my sites have gotten in and some
have even gotten COOL icons (the sunglasses).

Yahoo! is a business. Any service that requires
payment is a business. But whereas any gas station
will sell you fuel for your car, most banks won't lend
you money to buy a house. A business is allowed to be
selective concerning its clientele. That process
doesn't make them necessarily bad. And Yahoo! doesn't
promise to list everyone.

If ANY directory has the ability to be selective, it's
Yahoo!

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