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May 15, 2006

Is Yahoo Answers Begging to be Spammed?

The Yahoo Search Blog announced yesterday that Yahoo Answers would now be showing up in Yahoo's regular search results.

And they're are - everywhere for most question-related search queries, often taking up the first two spots in Yahoo search results. Given that these questions and answers are user-generated and link drops are permitted (as you can see here), isn't the prime ranking of questions like:

how to last longer in bed

how can i maintain erection

how can i get laid

...just prime targets for placing adult dating and viagra affilate links?

The fact that questions are only open to new answers for a week or two means that people can't go back and insert links into old posts that're already ranking well, but there's nothing to stop one from creating a new post for a popular query, droping a link, then sitting back and waiting a few weeks for it to rank.

Curious to see if this becomes a problem.

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