That was not a bad thing. It was curated. Most of the crap never made it in the directory precisely because humans made decisions about what got in. If you want

That was not a bad thing. It was curated. Most of the crap never made it in the directory precisely because humans made decisions about what got in. If you wanted in the directory faster, you could pay a fee to get to the front of the queue. The result is that Yahoo could hire people to process the queue and make money without ads.