This is a major advertising scam against the general public. Yahoo needs to identify all paid ads; they should not deceive the general public in this manner. The FTC should stop them and fine Yahoo for the $100,000,000 they earn using this scam every year.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Forrest [mailto:tomforrest@htpcompany.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 11:35 AM
To: navinap@yahoo-inc.com; jeremy@zawodny.com; jzawodn@yahoo-inc.com
Cc: Tom Forrest; laceyphillips@htpcompany.com
Subject: RE: Yahoo! Change - I need a Yahoo managers name and phone number to resolve this problem
Importance: High
Hello,
I want to talk with a Yahoo manager, someone that can help me.
I purchased a Lifetime listing in the Yahoo Directory in 1998.
I want my site www.htpcompany.com indexed in Yahoo.
Please put my site back in the Yahoo Directory and take off any suppression to index my site. Please treat htpcompany fairly; we just want to be naturally indexed. Currently it appears Yahoo is suppressing and preventing this from happening unless we pay Yahoo for every page of our site and every click we receive. See details below.
Yahoo should have all or most of our pages indexed for no fees, just like MSN and Google currently do. Also the FTC should stop Yahoo from using this paid inclusion scam / scheme as it is unfair to Google and MSN that the government has not stopped Yahoo from using this unfair and misleading practice already. The FTC needs to enforce the law.
Currently the way Yahoo does this unfair and illegal search suppression is by only letting our web site and millions of other web sites show up in a Yahoo search if you type "htpcompany.com" . You only have one page indexed and only one very specific way to search for it. This is a scam. I am starting a group to report all the people Yahoo has unfairly done this to, and report Yahoo to the Federal Trade Commission.
I am not going to pay Yahoo 30 cents per click if someone wants to search for "htpcompany" or "Tom Forrest".
It just makes Yahoo look very bad since I am # 1 in Google and MSN for Tom Forrest or htpcompany. If you search for "tom forrest" on Yahoo Tom Hanks shows up as the #1 result. Is that how Yahoo ranks today?
Yahoo is the worst search engine.
Furthermore I believe it is illegal to not mark all the people that pay you for every click as sponsored listings. By FTC rules you need to make it clear what are paid listings and what are natural non paid listings. Yahoo is clearly in violation of FTC rules. Yahoo can not mix up paid and not paid listings and present it to the public as all non paid listings.
Please visit this web site to read more about Yahoo's terrible service.
http://gototom2.blogspot.com/
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Tom Forrest
Phone: 805-493-4450
http://www.htpcompany.com
-----Original Message-----
From: navinap@yahoo-inc.com [mailto:navinap@yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:24 AM
To: Tom Forrest
Subject: Yahoo! Change
The valid changes you have requested to
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/change
Please be aware that Yahoo! reserves the right to edit change requests when needed. Some of the originally requested changes may be denied.
Thanks,
The Yahoo! Team
