Is Yahoo! still useful?

[Wilfred Drew]

Supposedly Yahoo had librarians doing indexing.  The head of it was a
memeber of this list at one time.  I hope she replies.

CMUNSON wrote:
> 
>      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
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> 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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