Jul
17
I just checked Yahoo, and with a site of mine that’s as clean and fresh as newly washed linens hung out in the sun and fresh air to dry, a site 100% non-commercial and totally for the benefit of users, newly listed in ODP, there are already scraped sites turning up at Yahoo - subsidized and funded by Google AdSense.
This is criminal. It is not only tainting the integrity of the quality of carefully screened ODP-listed sites, but in my opinion is misusing the data freely made available to them. Not to mention tainting the sites they’re listing.
Thank goodness for Yahoo Search showing those or we wouldn’t know it’s happening. My gripe is with Google for subsidizing useless swill with nothing more than scraped content and no value for users.
What’s really sad is that these sites get listed at Yahoo right off showing up as back-links, while the actual updated ODP categores are not yet showing up.