Yahoo!

[CMUNSON]

Anne Callery <anne at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
     
>Hi -- I think I am the Yahoo! surfer (cataloger) you remember.  I'll try 
>to answer some of the concerns that were raised here... 
     
     Anne, thanks for responding to us.
     
>We are still adding a lot of sites to the directory.  See 
><http://www.yahoo.com/new/> for each day's new additions, as well as a 
>few other daily features.  We receive thousands of submissions each week, 
>and because we want to make sure we look at each one before adding a 
>listing, it can take a while to process.  It's pretty much the same 
>situation for change forms.

   Does Yahoo! have policies about what they WON'T link to? It seems that 
   I've had consistent problems getting Yahoo! to link to parts of my 
   sites that, while they may be lower down on the hierarchy, are still 
   full-fledged "bibliographic" or "intellectual" projects. For example, 
   I run a political site in my free time which has the main page 
   included in Yahoo! and a sub-project called "The TAZ" which is a 
   Yahoo-like index to that political persuasion. I've also had similar 
   problems with work-related sites.
   
   The site also has an e-zine, which is one of the original e-zines, and 
   I've had difficulty getting that added. Finally, I'm bewildered that a 
   alternative newswire page that is at the site which contains news 
   articles from a variety of alternative news services, can't get a link 
   in Yahoo!s "Newswire" section.

     
>We do run periodic scans of the database and check dead links by hand 
>before deleting them.  Sometimes a site has moved, and we just need to   
>change the URL.  We also come across these dead links on our own while 
>grooming and maintaining categories.  In addition to these methods, we 
>rely on users to let us know if they come across the dead links first.   
     
You all should be commended for all the work you do. I find Yahoo! 
to be one of my favorite web sites and I've been surfing since 
mid-1993.

One final aside, can you shed any light on why the anarchist stuff 
was moved from Government:Politics:Political Opinion:Anarchism to 
Arts:Humanities:Philosophy:Political Theory:Anarchism?

Revolting webmasters want to know. ;-)

Chuck0