Yea, Allan, I won’t lose too much sleep here.
I started some good SEO a few months ago… and I bought up several good, key-word rich domain names. I think I’m more upset that the Overture Search Tool most likely won’t work for us anymore after this month! (I’m guessing)
My biggest competition is Casino Cash Journey. She has to be spending in the neighborhood of $50,000/month. Now, she will be GONE from Overture… her big butt’s been up there long enough anyway. And I know we will continue to fight on Google, but Google is not a “pure” pay-per-click like Overture was… You can’t simple out-bid the competition over there.
As far as the government coming after webmasters, I still don’t think that’s likely. In fact, I don’t believe this move has anything to do with presure placed on Yahoo… I think it’s just Yahoo’s business model to try to build solid profits away from a potentially volital (and legally murky) industry like ours.