Take a look at this: http://www.searchen.com/forum/t759-yahoo-pushing-it.html Tell me if there is enough ads in your face?
On my screen I get 4 sponsored ads and then a "Find over 8,600 homes in Las Vegas on Yahoo! Real Estate" link The actual listings start under the fold... Pathetic
Looks like their modo is now "It's time to make money" There probably signing up publishers faster then they can handle.. News is their payouts are higher than Google and that cannot be easy... Time to reck that index and start signing PPC clients, fast.... This can't stick... They will be digging their own grave....
I think for these guys finding enough spots for ads is getting to be a problem. Google has Gmail, - does Yahoo spam their email too..? I'd be curious to know that.
Just logged into my Yahoo mail account which I never use... Not one YSM ad in there... Surprizing.... I'm sure it is coming soon...
Most businesses are set up to make money and are always tryin to find ways to increase revenues. I do think it's over kill........ if you want to be in the top results you have to pay for it. Can't even see the organic SERPS. Yahoo is making a statement by doing that: Money is more important than being the best SE. The sad thing is for the every day end user. Most don't know the difference (organic Vs PPC) and anyone can buy there way to the top spot.
These are for commercial searches right? Why is that a problem? The ads are probably much more relevant than the organic results anyway.
How do you complain? Thay have no way to contact them that I can find. They don't want to hear anything from anyone. They are living in their own fantasy world.
There are 15 sponsored links (ads) vs 10 search results. That is stupid. Yahoo is not longer a search engine it's a paid listings directory.
The problem is the ethics behind it. Why even have a search engine then? Why not just make a PPC engine? I would venture to guess that most of the Yahoo users wouldn't want to search paid for listings.
I'm not really sticking up for them but "Las Vegas real estate"...it doesn't get more commercial than that.