Is Yahoo! still useful?

[Joe Barker]

	I share your experience and concern.
	I have also noted many categories in which Yahoo! has dead links
and/or old sites -- many not maintained in over 1 year or 2.
	They are no longer in my first cut of places to search when I
organize our searching classes. 

	Joe Barker, WWW Program Coordinator, The Teaching Library, UCB

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
>