Posted on Tuesday 13 May 2008
What better way to publicly slander a company, humiliate them to the entire world and destroy their organic search results as well as their website traffic then by issuing them a scarlet letter. Now compound that with the irreverence of acknowledging the issuance of this slanderous symbol by mistake then by pointing responsibility to another party and stating that “They” are responsible for your issuance of this dominant slander.

Yahoo’s beta version of SearchScanBETA powered by McAfee does just that and David Lewis’s site AnyCoupons.com got flagged as a spammer. Yahoo Issues scarlet letters to websites that McAfee feels have not met their criteria. Potentially damaging to a company? No not damaging, damning completely, complete annihilation and apparently based on David Lewis’s pain irreversible and without true justification. See David’s Post here.
My thoughts on Yahoo’s SearchScanBETA - 4 words….
Isolation – Domination – Submission – Control
Go to Yahoo and type in the keyword online coupons – Note not only the scarlet letter announcing to the world that this website has perpetrated some injustice. But also note the heady warning at the top of the page… Now imagine this is your website, your company, your life blood that feeds your children and now imagine this is a mistake…
With the probability of this only being 99% Accurate - it should be not considered as viable, the scarlet letter is too damning to an online merchant for this beta to go into affect.
Has your site received the scarlet letter from Yahoo? Well apparently from David Lewis’s experience too bad, you are now out of business and good luck getting support, you can click here and get a nice canned response but as is typical with most engines these days they are making too much money to bother responding or caring to your needs, after all their lawyers are bigger then yours and they can pretty much do what they want… unless…. block the crawler …. Block it NOW!!
Yahoo’s SearchScan BETA was released on May 05, 2008 - More Information on it here



















































