How can you compare apples and oranges - Yahoo NEVER had its own search engine - they are a mere "listing" directory - whereas Google has ALWAYS been a search engine.
But then again, a few years ago when Yahoo started charging for their business listing an exhuberant price compared to them at the beginning begging to get listing they offered for free - it's obvious whose ethics are more desirable.
If the now "paid" listings may otherwise not have been crawled at all - well they probably were not worth it then - and paying for it does not make them more worth the while now.
True - Money speaks - but not necessarily to the tune of quality.I resent the "mood-making" that's already happening through people like you against Google. What have they ever done to YOU? Other than providing since years a rather ethical listing - compared to the cartell/monopoly-forming others.
Go ahead, join the cookie-cutter ranks and allow Yahoo getting richer by the day drawing the money out of pockets. Power is a funny thing - so bright that it seems to blind everyone.
Here we go again - eliminating the middle-class even on the internet. Such action has always led to war - hail, we don't have enough war in this world yet - we want some more. What would you write about without that? Some honest objective view would be nice!
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