This could just as easily be a swipe against their main competitive rival Google; GA does utilize GoogleAds.

This could just as easily be a swipe against their main competitive rival Google; GA does utilize GoogleAds.

Yahoo cuts off a hand that feeds Google? Yeah, I can imagine Yahoo doing just that. Reminds me of why I stopped using Yahoo. Too much in the way of smoke and mirrors.

Spiting a competitive rival isn't exactly a rare, unheard of thing - you'd be surprised at how often it happens in general. That's assuming that this is in fact what's happening here, rather than DuckDuckGo simply being a poor search engine...

Spiting a competitive rival isn't exactly a rare, unheard of thing - you'd be surprised at how often it happens in general. That's assuming that this is in fact what's happening here, rather than DuckDuckGo simply being a poor search engine...

A user will stop using Yahoo if he can't find the site he is looking for. After all, why not switch to Google, like everyone else? I'm not sure I buy the spiting-rivals theory. I think gayauthors.org is blocking Yahoo or else is not properly SEO'd.