The end of 2009 will mark the end of an era in search. Web sites will no longer be able to pay to be included in organic search results now that Yahoo is winding down the practice. Yahoo Search Submit, the program that guaranteed inclusion in Yahoo's index, is being shuttered as of December 31. It was the last holdout among the major search engines to continue with the controversial service. While the program has never promised rankings, only the opportunity to be ranked, some search marketers have seen it as a back door into Yahoo's results.
