Another ridiculously one-sided and shallow story about Google. I’ve ranted about their dangerous equating of importance with popularity, and will continue to harass these authors until they think about the implications of this stuff.

On a related note, “Whose Web Is It, Anyway?” points out that Yahoo!’s editors are getting too picky for the mortal webweaver, though they partner with Inktomi for the heavy duty keyword searching (I haven’t looked into the latter’s filtering philosophy yet). Nevertheless, I’ve replaced my shortcut to the once beloved and familiar Yahoo! with one to the Open Directory Project. They’re open and collaborative and warm and fuzzy and everything that the early web was before Yahoo! made commercialism possible.

An aside: I’m benefitting professionally from this commercialism on a professional level, but I equate Yahoo’s policies with censorship. A directory should be like the phone book; organized and open to all.