The NCSA study is totally flawed:
http://aixtal.blogspot.com/2005/08/yahoo-missing-pages-2.html
--j |
Yahoo is a mess. Look at the site, the directory is full of spam, link rot and misplaced sites. Look at Yahoo Groups, search for something thre and you are swarmed by adult garbage and you might find one group, still active in all the mess.
I've been an editor at Dmoz for a long time and I know what things look like from the other side. But, the content is checked regularly and software catches invalid links as domains expire. It's not perfect and its backed up with submitted sites but it's still a place you can find something. It's also a chunk of the Google Directory.
I only search on Google now. I used to like Excite but they don't compare to Google. |