Sorry, but if you think any of the search engines are totally honest and straight forward, I have a bridge to sell you.
While I'm not entirely sure it helps, paying the $300 is probably a good idea unless you really need that title tag.
My biggest beef with Yahoo is simply that they often appear to lack rhyme and reason in their serps and updates. For me, I still get better positions than Google though. Yahoo needs to clean up their results, as MSN is gaining ground fast (and will likely overtake Y after IE7 is released).
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