Is Yahoo! still useful?

[Vladislav S. Davidzon]

I have noticed quite a few broken links on Yahoo, thats why I actually
stopped using it in my internet searches... If you go into any of the
categories, especially internet providers, you will stumble upon many broken
links.

Does anyone know of any good engines that do the same thing Yahoo *used* to
do?

While Yahoo may not be completely dead, I have a strong feelings its one of
those dinosaur-like creatures which outgrow themselves... It just became too
big...

Vladislav





-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Rumsey <rumsey at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 1997 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! still useful?


>On Nov 18, Chuck Munson wrote -
>>I've   submitted web sites half a dozen times to Yahoo! and they never got
>> added.
>
>I keep a page that points to new medical/health sites added to Yahoo ...
>http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/mednew.html
>.. Rest assured, they are still adding a large volume of sites ... trouble
>is, a large proportion are from the .com domain. I've had the same
>frustrating experience submitting pages to Yahoo that you have.
>
>To see the new sites added, broken down by Yahoo section, see -
>http://www.yahoo.com/new/
>Of course, the Business and Economy section predominates! ...
>
>As far as the general usefulness of Yahoo ... I do regular link checking of
>lists in the Hardin Meta Directory (see URL in signature) to see that
>they're maintaining a reasonable connection rate, and Yahoo generally does
>quite well - They must be spending a fair amount of time/energy checking
>links.
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>Eric Rumsey, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
>University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242
><eric-rumsey at uiowa.edu>
>319-335-9875 (voice), 319-335-9897 (fax)
>Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
>http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/md.html
>Featured in Internet Medicine (Lippincott-Raven), June 1997
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