It is clear to me now, after having been a member of Yahoo for 11 years, that this company is at it's very core utterly incompetent. It must have an incompetent board of executives, incompetent programmers, incompetent community managers, incompetent developers etc etc.

During the 11 years of my Yahoo membership, I have witnessed how each decision made to "improve" the service, have all ended up making everything worse.

From the 2005 wipeout of user-generated chatrooms, to the shere mind-boggling amateurism and uselessness of the 2009 "new and improved profiles", Yahoo has not made a single good move in atleast 4 years.

The chatrooms, which originally was one of the main attractions that brought a userbase to Yahoo, are now so rampant and infested with automated spam "bots", that they are all but unusable to serious chatters. This is a shame, because there are no real alternatives to Yahoo Chat out there. And Chat is an important and delightfully different way of communication with people from all over the world, in a time where everything is drowning in self-promoting 15 minutes of fame type social sites, like Twitter and Facebook.

Yahoo has decided it also wants to be a social site. And this they have gone about with all the enthusiasm and vigor of the incompetent. The result of which are the "new and improved" Yahoo profiles, where all the information you have written about yourself has been crammed into a 3 inches wide column on the right side of the screen, your blog entries reduced to links and the rest of the page dedicated to "updates".
Which means that all the information that matters is unreadable, and everything that has to do with "abbey connected to melissa_daniels" and "abbey updated her latest news", gets the front and center and 90% of all the page space. Why? Personally I have turned off the updates section on my profile, which in return means that my profile is essentially one big blank page.

You may ask if I can't just move the modules around, but no! In their enginuity, Yahoo has managed to make maybe the least userfriendly profile on the internet. Modules can't be moved around, you can't customize even a single pixel, and most Yahoo users - far the most - can't even get beyond figuring out how to make the profile public, which is like figuring out how to write the guiding system on a NASA Mars probe. Worse actually, because it doesn't actually work at all. No matter what you do, no matter how much you use the informationless HELP - where the FAQ's include all the questions you don't need to ask and not the ones that you do, like "why can't anyone see my profile, eventhough I have done every single thing your tutorial tells me to do?" - no matter how much you try and try again, you will always lose on Yahoo, because Yahoo is, quite frankly, crap.

And it could be so good! If they only listened to their users. Which they did for a short, strange while, on their Yahoo Profiles Blog and Yahoo Messenger Blog.
However, this is over now. On the Yahoo Profiles Blog, they simply decided to silence all criticism (of which there was bountiful plenty), by TAKING THE COMMENTS OFFLINE! I kid you not! It's not like they shut down the comments section. No, it's still there. You can go in, read the blog post advertizing how amazing their "new and improved" profiles are, and observe that each blog written by some Yahoo minion, has a number of comments. But if you click the comments link, you get "Sorry, the page you requested was not found". On all blog comments on all blog entires, dating back to the first one. Thousands and thousands of user criticism, wiped out in one glorious stroke.

Even worse is possibly the Yahoo Messenger Blog, where the almighty Sarah Bacon, Product Manager, actively deletes critical comments. You can try this yourself. Go to the blog, write what you think Yahoo has done wrong and what you think it should do right, and watch how your comment magically disappears over night. Write anything remotely critical, and you will be censored.

This is a really dangerous path to take for any web based company. They will end up completely alienating the remaining userbase, like yours truly, and turning themselves into the evil villains in this issue. The end result could result in the last and final exodus of active users on Yahoo (they lost about 85% of active chatters in 2005, when they wiped user generated chatrooms from the service, and more have left since, due to the "improvements" and lack thereof in the years since).

I have watched now, for 11 years, a company walking down the path of implosion and self destruction, at a faster and faster pace. In all fairness, it is quite a feat that they have not gone bankrupt yet. They know how to get the sponsors I assume. They know how to get advertisements. But they sure as all heck, have no clue how to maintain a decent service or how to nurture a userbase. And what is a company without clients? What is Yahoo without active users? Without the communities that once made Yahoo a living and vibrant place to visit and spend time?

What is Yahoo now, after the last 4 years of incompetent decisions? It is nothing but a glorified billboard. It has no purpose. The chatrooms are dead and silent. It's like a post apocalyptic wasteland, where all life is gone and all that remains are the machines (the spam bots) still grinding away for no one.

I see a sign in name when I first open yahoo messenger...is that going to be my username to view other cam's and chat? Or is there another area? I couldn't find one and i gave that sign in name to whom i wanted to 'visit' and they said they need a username.

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my site is on first page of google with the key word "best time management" and on the 2nd page of bing but in yahoo i can't find it with in first 15 pages :(

what can be the reason??

So the writer at SearchEngineLand.com wrote a previous article telling us that Yahoo quietly dropped support for the meta keyword tag but he did a test: he placed the following text into the keyword meta tag of the home page for searchengineland.com - xcvteuflsowkldlslkslklsk - he did a search for that string on yahoo and found no results, but he searched the string again on yahoo, yesterday and his site came up #1. I just did the same search and indeed, searchengineland did come up on ca.search.yahoo.com.

I just did the same search on google.ca and nothing came up and again on google.com and nothing came up other than the post he wrote which can be viewed here:

searchengineland.com/sorry-yahoo-you-do-index-the-meta-keywords-tag-27743

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I received an email that said that I was a member of a class action against Yahoo. Basically if you went out of business that you could apply to get a $20 refund and otherwise gave you nothing, but makes Yahoo put some extra features on their PPC engine. I put the whole letter on my blog if you want to read it.Yahoo Class Action it said anyone that advertised using PPC from 2000 to Sept 2009 was a part of the class action.

Seems like they could have done a little more for the poor guys that didn't go out of business, I am interested to hear what you think before I decide weather to opt out or not.

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Apparently yahoo has stopped supporting the meta keywords tag months ago without announcing the news. Has anyone else heard this?

In the end I think it's a great idea if all the search engines didn't use the read the tag because it can be stuffed with so much spam and affect normal search results. I think the engines have evolved to the point where they are more capable of determining a sites keywords based on their own calculations instead of relying on the coder.

I found the news about yahoo not supporting the keywords tag here: searchengineland.com/yahoo-search-no-longer-uses-meta-keywords-tag-27303

I received this script in my yahoo id with the auto response mail from a site when i submit one request. what does this mean?

Please let me know the details at the earliest.

So, should we now start ignoring Yahoo and only aim for Google and Bing?

If Yahoo's results are going to be powered by Bing I see no reason to aim at a Yahoo position for what could only turn out to be a couple of weeks!

What are your plans?

I have a website just 4-5 months and it is performing well so far with Google and Bing. However, looks like yahoo won't even listen to it. I can see some back links indexed by yahoo and it successfully crawled my website. But knowing fully well when bing and google are adhering my content, why yahoo wont?

any suggestions to make yahoo aware of my site and worthy enough to be included within organic search results?

Thanks

have anyone noticed the new look of yahoo search?

Earlier this week, one of my sites that had very little activity both in terms of traffic and conversion, got an amazing result of 30+ conversion with 600+ unique visits.

Analytics showed that 98% of new traffic was from Yahoo for a particular search term.

This happened for a window of 5 hours - from about 5.30PM to 10.30PM.

I am totally baffled. Any theories?

After that 5 hour window, for next couple of days, it went back to normal traffic and convertion of like 1 or 2 a day.

What could have caused such a surge?

BTW, traffic was from almost all 50 states and leads are good. So most likely its not spam.

Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp's Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries.

It may be because due to the reports that the Microsoft gained 0.5 percent in July.
According to the latest reports,

64.7 percent for Google
19.3 percent for Yahoo
and 8.9 percent for BING.

For more information visit the link:

Yahoo to compete with Bing despite Microsoft deal - Yahoo! News

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I clicked on the pc to phone subscription button and filled out the subscription form for 10 dollars worth. A response came back and said "Thanks for subscribing to Yahoo Voice." I said to myself "here goes". I've already got problems with Yahoo messenger and I haven't even got to use it yet. How do I get this mess cleared up. They took my money and I don't have what I signed up for.

I do not know but it seems that everyone has kept mum about yahoo. As bing has stolen the limelight and as Google is gearing up for promoting Chromed based OS, not a single person is discussing about the future of Yahoo. Is yahoo looking for the perfect time or it has become obsolete? What the members think?