This is something really valued added from Yahoo, they should do more of these if they want to compete against Google's continuous innovation.
My AVG v8 already does that for me to all search results from yahoo and google a like. , but only works on already reported sites.
Spammer doesn't mean scammer - but it does alert people to the potential of being inundated with pointless email. There will be some innocent occurances of this where sites may get flagged for sending unsolicited email whereas the people who reported the email as spam had actually elected to receive it. Nevertheless, it is a progressive step and welcomed feature that can be expanded upon to eventually prevent known 'scam sites' or 'blatant spammers' from actually receiving search engine traffic.
McAfee, is this some kind of joke? Even McAfee won't be able to detect normal viruses and spywares, they are so far behind Kaspersky and even AVG.
No kidding! Wow! As for Yahoo!, that's a pretty cool feature. The only thing is, do they give you a good way of 'righting it', if they have incorrectly mislabeled your site? Judging from other Yahoo features, it's probably a major pain trying to get ahold of anyone living.
I really hope something like this does a good job of preventing false/positives. Improper warnings for something like that would really kill traffic, even if it is just for a day or two, that could have a huge negative impact for a site. Interesting idea though, I'm curious how this will play out, and what the other search engines will do.
It seems like a cool feature but I am worrying 2 things 1. mislabeled - Nothing is perfect. What will happen if Yahoo show a false alert by labeled on site that is not done anything wrong. 2. Can anyone get anybody sites harm by try to make some site labeled as "spam"? Only my opinion.
This is a great feature as long as there is a good way to identify which sites are really known spammers. I would assume this works in conjunction with Yahoo Mail, so Yahoo can check which emails its users identify as spam and tag all SE listings for that domain appropriately.