Is Yahoo! still useful?

[CMUNSON]

     I'm looking forward to more responses, but does this indicate that 
     there may finally be a need to have a comprehensive subject guide 
     coordinated by librarians?
     
     Are there any promising projects out there?
     
     Chuck


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Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! still useful?
Author:  Robert Rasmussen <ras at nimbus.anzio.com> at Internet
Date:    11/18/97 1:54 PM


I can speak from experience that Yahoo is very UNresponsive to modification 
requests. We changed sites 10 months ago, and have as yet failed to get Yahoo 
to show our new site. Consequently we have had to maintain an account at our 
prior site in order to forward the (many) web hits that we get from Yahoo.
     
I had a hard time getting listed in the first place, until I cocontacted them 
about possible advertising...
     
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, CMUNSON wrote:
     
>      Yahoo! has been one of the premiere web directories for several years, 
>      but I'm beginning to wonder if it's really up-to-date. Does anyone 
>      know of any articles or studies on Yahoo! or its content? I've 
>      submitted web sites half a dozen times to Yahoo! and they never got 
>      added. One was work-related and I asked 4 times over 6 months. Given 
>      the exponential increase in web content you'd think you'd see a 
>      corresponding increase in the number of new sites added. 
>      
>      I see little evidence of this at Yahoo! 
>      
>      Any observations?
>      
>      Chuck Munson
>      AAAS
> 
     
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