On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:08:14 GMT, "Nick Knight"
wrote:

Have you ever notice how Yahoo's links are all routed back to their own
servers, which then redirect you to the selected link? They're counting how
many times people have actually clicked on a link through them.

Yahoo has done a very good job with email-based discussion groups
(Yahoo Groups), Web-based email (Yahoo Mail), and shopping (Yahoo
Shopping), but its directory stinks, which ironically is how it
started of course. Many key sites aren't included in Yahoo's
categories, some of its "Most Popular" sites are wildly esoteric, and
site submissions to it may never show up. A much better directory is
ODP (Open Directory Project ( http://www.dmoz.com), which in fact is
the directory that Google uses and a number of other search portals
license and use. Yahoo's auction site (Yahoo Auctions) is also awful,
having totally blown the opportunity to give eBay, well, a run for its
money.

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