Yahoo OUTS scammers and spammers in results...

Unless this is something I downloaded, but I'm pretty sure they just enacted this new feature:

 

Yes, this is a new feature on yahoo.

 

http://www.thegermz.com/my-ramblings/mcafee-and-yahoo-partnership

That should explain everything

 

It's about time SE's took this into their own hands.

I think this is a great feature for Yahoo.

 

wow..i didnt hear about this until now..good news.

 

Spammer doesn't mean scammer necessarily ?!

 

this is really awesome

 

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.

 

wow! that's pretty hot!

 

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.

 

Thats a good step taken by Yahoo! & but i agree with Ganceann

i hope Yahoo will do more better now

 

This is a good feature added to yahoo . i hope that google follow the same methode

 

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.

 

wow thats a great future for a SE

AVG antivirus does something similar

 

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.

 

excellent feature. i'm sure there will be a way to "delist" if they've mark your site incorrectly!

 

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.