Yahoo! site listings

Posted by Tom McKay, Student on team #65, Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 4/5/99 10:01 AM MST

In Ypsi I was thinking about ways to get more hits on our site, and our lead engineer, Ken Patton, suggested that I register the site with Yahoo!, so this morning I did. Right now it’s in the Education category. I told Yahoo! that it might be a good idea to make an all FIRST category, within the Education one or even inside the Science and Engineering one. If they do, I think it’d be cool for all of us to register our sites in the new category. What do you think? Just a little more recognition for FIRST! I’ll let you know if they make the new category. You may want to register your site now to encourage them to make the new category.
Tom McKay, Team 65

Posted by Peter VanWylen, Student on team #107, Team ROBOTICS, from Holland Christian High School and Metal Flow Corp…

Posted on 4/5/99 4:06 PM MST

In Reply to: Yahoo! site listings posted by Tom McKay on 4/5/99 10:01 AM MST:

: In Ypsi I was thinking about ways to get more hits on our site, and our lead engineer, Ken Patton, suggested that I register the site with Yahoo!, so this morning I did. Right now it’s in the Education category. I told Yahoo! that it might be a good idea to make an all FIRST category, within the Education one or even inside the Science and Engineering one. If they do, I think it’d be cool for all of us to register our sites in the new category. What do you think? Just a little more recognition for FIRST! I’ll let you know if they make the new category. You may want to register your site now to encourage them to make the new category.
: Tom McKay, Team 65
Seems to me that FIRST does a decent job making a list of all the teams. Why burden Yahoo! with more sites. If someone is interested in FIRST, they will go to the FIRST homepage, not a team homepage. At least I always go to official home pages, because you never know how good an un-official page is going to be. If someone really wants to go to your site, then they will go thru FIRST.

-Peter
BTW – nice homepage

Posted by Tom McKay, Student on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 4/6/99 8:54 AM MST

In Reply to: Re: Yahoo! site listings posted by Peter VanWylen on 4/5/99 4:06 PM MST:

: : In Ypsi I was thinking about ways to get more hits on our site, and our lead engineer, Ken Patton, suggested that I register the site with Yahoo!, so this morning I did. Right now it’s in the Education category. I told Yahoo! that it might be a good idea to make an all FIRST category, within the Education one or even inside the Science and Engineering one. If they do, I think it’d be cool for all of us to register our sites in the new category. What do you think? Just a little more recognition for FIRST! I’ll let you know if they make the new category. You may want to register your site now to encourage them to make the new category.
: : Tom McKay, Team 65
: Seems to me that FIRST does a decent job making a list of all the teams. Why burden Yahoo! with more sites. If someone is interested in FIRST, they will go to the FIRST homepage, not a team homepage. At least I always go to official home pages, because you never know how good an un-official page is going to be. If someone really wants to go to your site, then they will go thru FIRST.

: -Peter
: BTW – nice homepage

My point was making all of these sites a little more visible to everyone, not just people who are interested in FIRST. I mean, if someone happened who know nothing about FIRST was looking around in Yahoo! and saw our site and others like it, they may be interested and want to visit. I don’t know, maybe you’re right, but still, it’s worth a try!

-Tom McKay
BTW – Thanks

Posted by Brandon Martus, Other on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 4/6/99 10:51 AM MST

In Reply to: Re: Yahoo! site listings posted by Tom McKay on 4/6/99 8:54 AM MST:

I say go for it. it can’t hurt

if you could, post a message with the link to the category
you’re going to put it in on yahoo, so we all go to the same place to
put our sites.

what about lycos and altavista and all the other ones… not everyone uses yahoo…
just a thought

: : : In Ypsi I was thinking about ways to get more hits on our site, and our lead engineer, Ken Patton, suggested that I register the site with Yahoo!, so this morning I did. Right now it’s in the Education category. I told Yahoo! that it might be a good idea to make an all FIRST category, within the Education one or even inside the Science and Engineering one. If they do, I think it’d be cool for all of us to register our sites in the new category. What do you think? Just a little more recognition for FIRST! I’ll let you know if they make the new category. You may want to register your site now to encourage them to make the new category.
: : : Tom McKay, Team 65
: : Seems to me that FIRST does a decent job making a list of all the teams. Why burden Yahoo! with more sites. If someone is interested in FIRST, they will go to the FIRST homepage, not a team homepage. At least I always go to official home pages, because you never know how good an un-official page is going to be. If someone really wants to go to your site, then they will go thru FIRST.

: : -Peter
: : BTW – nice homepage

: My point was making all of these sites a little more visible to everyone, not just people who are interested in FIRST. I mean, if someone happened who know nothing about FIRST was looking around in Yahoo! and saw our site and others like it, they may be interested and want to visit. I don’t know, maybe you’re right, but still, it’s worth a try!

: -Tom McKay
: BTW – Thanks

Posted by Tom McKay, Student on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 4/6/99 12:38 PM MST

In Reply to: Re: Yahoo! site listings posted by Brandon Martus on 4/6/99 10:51 AM MST:

: I say go for it. it can’t hurt

: if you could, post a message with the link to the category
: you’re going to put it in on yahoo, so we all go to the same place to
: put our sites.

: what about lycos and altavista and all the other ones… not everyone uses yahoo…
: just a thought

Good point, I’ve asked Infoseek, Alta Vista, Lycos, and Snap.com for the same category as well. I’ll let you know where those are when they are available.

Tom McKay

Posted by Nate Smith, Student on team #74, Holland FIRST Robotics, from Holland High School and Haworth, Inc…

Posted on 4/6/99 11:01 AM MST

In Reply to: Yahoo! site listings posted by Tom McKay on 4/5/99 10:01 AM MST:

I thought I had already seen one there…so i went back looking for it and did find it. Here’s the address:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Engineering/Mechanical_Engineering/Robotics/Competitions/FIRST__For_Inspiration_and_Recognition_of_Science_and_Technology/

Nate

Posted by Tom McKay, Student on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 4/6/99 12:35 PM MST

In Reply to: It’s already there posted by Nate Smith on 4/6/99 11:01 AM MST:

: I thought I had already seen one there…so i went back looking for it and did find it. Here’s the address:
: http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Engineering/Mechanical_Engineering/Robotics/Competitions/FIRST__For_Inspiration_and_Recognition_of_Science_and_Technology/

: Nate

Hey! I looked for one but never saw it… You must have looked harder than I did. Thanks!

Tom McKay