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When smart companies do dumb things

Heard the big announcement about Yahoo’s new music service?

Check it out at (the logical) http://yahoo.com/music/

Interested in being a publisher with Google’s AdSense (partner to the AdWords program which accounts for >90% of the company’s revenue)? Try http://adsense.google.com/ (which would match adwords.google.com and labs.google.com, etc.)

What, those URLs don’t work? They don’t even *forward* to the appropriate page?

My point exactly.

Is it just me, or is that incredibly, massively dumb?

P.S. — The correct URLs are http://music.yahoo.com/ and http://google.com/adsense

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5 responses to “When smart companies do dumb things”

  1. nix Avatar
    nix

    adsense.google.com DOES redirect you now, but yahoo.com/music still doesn’t…
    “Smart” companies do smart things – sometimes.

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  2. Maria loves pictures Avatar
    Maria loves pictures

    Yes I agree with you, subdomain adresses arn’t locigal from the user perspective. I guess Yahoo devs like to have things to be placed on separate servers.

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  3. John Avatar
    John

    Exactly, you are right,
    But for yahoo we can not say any thing as it not following any SEO guidelines of Google.

    Reply
  4. Chaitanya Avatar
    Chaitanya

    Hey John,
    You are wrong, If yahoo does not follow Google webmaster Guidelines, it will not get place in Google SERP’s.

    Reply
  5. SEO Florida Avatar
    SEO Florida

    Yahoo is not following Google rules for it’s search engine, That’s why there difference in search algo. of both these major search engines.

    Reply

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