Absolutely agree with this. The Internet has become a giant boardwalk scam powered by google search and google adwords. We are making too many assumptions about

Absolutely agree with this. The Internet has become a giant boardwalk scam powered by google search and google adwords. We are making too many assumptions about the quality of google's results and forgetting about what made categorized quality links great about yahoo... hint: a human verified them. Would categorized links work for instantly updated info? Absolutely not, but the vast majority of searches have nothing to do with what happened in the last 24 hours. Look, it's a great achievement what google has done over the years and I don't think they're maliciously or purposefully trying to force content creators to produce shitty content, but it's definitely something that has gotten much worse over the past couple years. Without a real competitor in the space (and really, I don't see a sea-change in search coming anytime soon) then content publishers will continue to game the system, not only forcing farmed content on us, but forcing the quality content providers to resort to crazy advertising schemes just to stay afloat. Everyone loses. It would not surprise me if 40% of adword/adsense revenue was based on design practices of misdirection. I wouldn't feel so strongly about it if I didn't think it removed the chance for small, independent, honest publishers to make money in its place. Yahoo needs to eat it's pride and become the little guy. The one who cares about quality.