When all else fails, declare yourself "open." Netscape first pulled this maneuver in the late 1990s; the Netscape browser is now extinct. Yahoo has declared its search results open to improvement. Website publishers are encouraged to submit ideas for prettying up Yahoo search — presumably to include prominent links to their sites. How this is supposed to make Yahoo search results better, it's not clear; won't it just fill them with promotional spam? We'll leave you with this wisdom from a guy with a blog:

When I hear a big company use the term "open," I almost immediately assume they mean "to fucking me."

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