I have long used My Yahoo as my default home page. I like the ability to quickly scan the news to see what’s going on. I also use Google Reader to browse news feeds from lots of blog sites. I tracked the blogs I read most frequently – TechCrunch, PaidContent and TechDirt – and added them to My Yahoo page.
That’s when I found out that Yahoo has two classes of publishers. The options they make available get treated one way, blogs that you add on your own get treated differently.
Here’s the basic difference – if you use on of the content providers made available by Yahoo, then when you click on the link you go to the publishers site to see the content. On the other hand, if you click on a link from a blog that you add, then it pops up in a Yahoo reader page and the traffic never makes it to the blogger.
At first it seemed a bit strange. Why treat them differently. The more I thought about it the more I thought that My Yahoo’s treatment of bloggers is unfair. Publishers should be treated the same way, either link through or use a popup reader for everyone, or at least make it a user option.
The way My Yahoo does it now seems like they are hijacking the content from the blogs and giving their premium publishers traffic in exchange for using their feeds.
My name is Alex Nesbitt. This is my blog. I publish 