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May. 12, 2008 at 8:20am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Labels Google As Malware? No, Yahoo URL Mix Up
Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) from TechCrunch reports a funny bug at Yahoo, that accidently made it look like Google's home page had Malware on it, based on the Yahoo SearchScan feature that was recently launched. A search for Astalavista at Yahoo returned, what appeared to be a...
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May. 9, 2008 at 11:00am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari
Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and...
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May. 8, 2008 at 2:30am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Glue Pages Launches In India
Yahoo has launched Glue Pages Beta in Yahoo India. Glue Pages are specialized pages that contain an enhanced visual search result page, for select search queries. The search results that trigger the special "Glue Pages" run across searches in health, sports, entertainment, travel, technology, and finance categories. The Glue...
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May. 6, 2008 at 12:00am by Vanessa Fox
Yahoo Adds SearchScan Alerts to "Risky" Search Results
Yahoo Search has begun a partnership with McAfee, Inc. to provide SearchScan, which uses McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology to flag URLs it deems "risky" in the search results. Results are flagged with the type of danger below the title. This new feature is primarily aimed at preventing spyware and other...
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Apr. 25, 2008 at 9:09am by Greg Sterling
YOS: Rewiring Yahoo From The Inside Out
Yahoo's relatively new CTO Ari Balogh expanded upon Yahoo's "open" initiatives in a keynote speech to the Web2.0 conference yesterday. There's a very extensive discussion, including a video of the keynote, on the TechCrunch site (additional coverage in Search Engine Journal). The SearchMonkey beta is the first step in executing...
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Apr. 22, 2008 at 10:52am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Including Facebook Profile Images In Search Results
The Digital Inspiration blog is reporting that Facebook profile images are now appearing as thumbnails in general Yahoo search results (as opposed to image search results). I tried several times to find the images, using different people's names along with related phrases including "Facebook profile," and was unable to duplicate...
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Apr. 21, 2008 at 5:11pm by Greg Sterling
New Yahoo Search Weather Report
Yahoo Search says it's rolling out a new search update. Yahoo's post says the company will be "rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and...
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Apr. 14, 2008 at 4:00pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Updates Crawler: Introduces Yahoo Slurp 3.0
Yahoo has announced the launch of their new crawler, Yahoo! Slurp 3.0. 3.0 is slowly being pushed out over the course of the "next several weeks," including "some infrastructure updates," Yahoo said. I suspect the recent changes we reported with the Yahoo Search Tax Day update is related to the...
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Apr. 14, 2008 at 8:45am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Update: April 2008 'Tax' Update
At the Search Engine Roundtable, I reported about a Yahoo Search update that started this weekend. It appears that there are major shifts taking place in the way Yahoo Search ranks and indexes some sites. A WebmasterWorld thread has several SEOs and webmasters tracking the changes in details. We have...
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Mar. 3, 2008 at 4:01pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search March '08 Weather Report
Yahoo Search sent me a note that tomorrow they will be rolling out a new update. Yahoo told me that they made "some changes to their crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms." The update is expected to be a quick one, but you may notice "ranking changes and page shuffling in...
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Feb. 26, 2008 at 11:40am by Greg Sterling
Despite Takeover Turmoil, Yahoo Not Rolling Over & Playing Dead
A curious thing is happening: Yahoo seems to be executing in the midst of the chaos of uncertainty surrounding its future. Speaking at an IAB event yesterday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said the Microsoft takeover bid has been "a galvanizing event for everyone at Yahoo."...
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Feb. 20, 2008 at 9:23am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Search Index Now Supported By Open-Source Hadoop Architecture
As the Yahoo Search Blog explains, open-source Apache Hadoop is now at the center of Yahoo's search index: We are now using Hadoop to process the Webmap -- the application which produces the index from the billions of pages crawled by Yahoo! Search ... Our implementation of a Hadoop-based Webmap...
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Jan. 22, 2008 at 10:05am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Update: First Update Of 2008
Yahoo has announced the first Yahoo Search update of 2008. Sharad Verma said Yahoo has been rolling out updates to their "crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms" over the past couple days. Yahoo tells us the update will be done soon, but you may notice "some ranking changes and page shuffling...
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Jan. 21, 2008 at 9:53am by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo Tests Delicious Integration In Search Results
Yahoo has sent word that they are testing integration of data from their Delicious social bookmarking site within the Yahoo search results pages. For some users, a search will now show whether a page listed in Yahoo results is also on Delicious and how it has been tagged. It...
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Dec. 5, 2007 at 2:08pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Weather Update & Support For X-Robots Tag
The Yahoo Blog issued a weather report for changes to rankings in Yahoo Search, along with news that they are now supporting the X-Robots-Tag directive -- a way to control indexing of content that cannot accept meta robots tags....
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Dec. 3, 2007 at 9:44am by Barry Schwartz
Saddam Hussein, Britney Spears, Harry Potter, & Recycling In Yahoo 2007 Top Trends
What do Saddam Hussein, Britney Spears, Harry Potter, and recycling all have to do with each other? They all made the Top Trends in Yahoo Search in 2007 list. The top news story search in 2007 was Saddam Hussein; the top environmental search was recycling, the top troubled stars search...
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Nov. 27, 2007 at 9:11am by Barry Schwartz
Structure Search Coming To Yahoo
Yahoo to offer structured Web search from Macworld reports Yahoo is going to launch a new structured search component to their web search engine. Web search is typically considered "unstructured," where there isn't a real method of comparing sets of results side by side, in a data comparison grid structure....
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Oct. 31, 2007 at 12:53pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Updates Algorithm, Index, & Crawl
The Yahoo Search Blog has posted that they are currently undergoing an index, crawl, and algorithm update. Priyank Garg of Yahoo said: Over the last few days, we've been rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as...
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Oct. 25, 2007 at 9:40am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Launches Search Assist In UK
Yahoo has informed me that they have launched Yahoo Search Assist in the UK. If you go to http://uk.search.yahoo.com/ and conduct a search, you will see the Search Assist feature: Yahoo launched this in the US earlier this month....
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Oct. 8, 2007 at 9:59am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Feeds: Rediscovering RSS Auto-Discovery
Ekstreme noticed that Yahoo Search is supporting auto-discovery for searches. Yahoo has been doing this since at least 2005, but it's still not known to many people. Here's how it works:...
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Oct. 2, 2007 at 1:27am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Upgrades Search Experience, Launches Search Assist & Multimedia Content In Results
Most of the pieces have been sneaking out over the past month or so. But today Yahoo is formally announcing a range of search upgrades, more Shortcuts, integration of video and photos directly in search results, and Search Assist. Search Assist, which Danny previously wrote about at length, is the...
