today I was going through emails and found many hits from yahoo for my Acura rearview mirror problem, my long hair (which has been recently sacrificed) and my entry on trapping the enter key. BTW, if you want to trap the enter key in ASP.net, feel free to use this little utility, complete with instructions.
Recently, I tried to give referral to my favorite Volvo Service center in Atlanta. They didn't appear on Google. I gave them all sorts of pointers as to how to fix their site. They have great info on Volvo Service and Information here. Unfortunately, everything is sub-optimal images and the whole thing is buried in a frameset behind a useless splash page full of keyword spam.... No wonder they don't show up. Yet, they are number one on Yahoo! They also have a paid listing on Yahoo. Not really a surprise there either. I stopped using Yahoo a long time ago when Google blew them away for valid, useful content.
I get quite a few referrals from Yahoo searches. Many of the topics show my postings very highly ranked. I was amazed to find my trap the enter key number 1. Then I went to Google and its number 4! That aint bad. Not bad at all.
In this new world of information at your fingertips, the ease at which knowledge can be shared and found is amazing. I don't think most people are really paying much attention. Its just commonplace now. In ten years, people will be researching the history of the weblog, the advent of RDD and how XML changed the world. Right now, half of us think its great, the other half don't care and just a few of us are onboard, riding the modern equivalent of the railroad.