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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. 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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Apr. 7, 2008 at 7:09am by Greg Sterling
iProspect: Blended Search Resulting In More Clicks On News, Images, And Video
Since the advent of "blended" or "universal search" last year across the major engines, there's been ongoing discussion and speculation about its impact on user behavior and search marketing. Gord Hotchkiss last year wrote extensively about how blended search (on Google) has in fact shifted the user focus from the...
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Mar. 31, 2008 at 8:45am by Barry Schwartz
Google Dance Is Back? Plus Google's First Live Chat Recap & Hyperactive Yahoo Slurp
Is the Google Dance back? Well, not really, but I am noticing Google Dance-like behavior from Google based on reading some of the feedback at a WebmasterWorld thread. The Google Dance refers to how years ago, a change to Google's ranking algorithm often began showing up slowly across data centers...
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Mar. 13, 2008 at 11:00am by Vanessa Fox
More Yahoo Search Monkey Details: Creating A "Developer Ecosystem For Search"
Two weeks ago at SMX West, Yahoo! announced a new project code named "Search Monkey" that would enable content owners (and in some cases, searchers) to add rich content to search results. Today, Yahoo has released additional details about the program, which has not yet launched. The announcement describes how...
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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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Dec. 31, 2007 at 10:18am by Vanessa Fox
The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review
The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round, plus a recap of this year's "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other search engines stand on...
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Dec. 25, 2007 at 8:24pm by Vanessa Fox
Webmaster Support Forum For Christmas (& All Year Round) From The Search Engines
Last year on Christmas Day, Barry reported over at Search Engine Roundtable how Adam Lasnik and I spent a bit of time answering questions on the Google Webmaster Central forums. This year, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller keeps up the tradition. In the spirit of the season, I thought...
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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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Sep. 26, 2007 at 10:36am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Updating Index & Algorithm
We have been noticing reports from several sources of a Yahoo Search index and algorithm update. It is important to note that Yahoo has not yet posted their "weather report" at the Yahoo Search Blog yet. However Aaron Wall, Loren Baker and several forums have noticed major changes at Yahoo...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 7:42pm by Danny Sullivan
Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To "Legally" Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines
If there's anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it's the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It's practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this article, I'll explain more about why you shouldn't worry about it except perhaps for misspellings,...
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Aug. 22, 2007 at 12:18pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Slurp Gets More Efficient & New Index Update
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have made major changes to their crawling process, plus rolled out a new update to their crawling, indexing and ranking systems. Recently, there have been many complaints that Yahoo's crawler, Yahoo Slurp, is crawling sites too heavily. Yahoo says it has taken this...
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Jul. 19, 2007 at 5:27pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo July 2007 Search Update
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they are currently rolling out a web search update. Priyank Garg's "weather report" said: We've been rolling out some changes to our fresh web data and crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the last few days. We expect the update will be completed by...
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Jun. 6, 2007 at 12:18pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search June 2007 Update
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they are doing an index and ranking algorithm update. The update started last night and should be "complete very soon," said Priyank Garg of Yahoo Search. Yahoo's last update was just a few weeks ago on May 22nd. That update was a minor update....
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Jun. 5, 2007 at 1:09pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Finalizes Slurps Move To New Address
The Yahoo Search Blog announced the transition of Yahoo Slurp, Yahoo's web crawler, from inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net is now complete. The IP addresses and the user-agent are remaining the same but the DNS lookup is different, it is now crawl.yahoo.net. This does not apply to other Yahoo crawlers, including Yahoo...
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May. 22, 2007 at 12:06pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Update Tonight - May 22nd
Tim Mayer of Yahoo informed us that there will be a Yahoo Search index update tonight. Tim said we should "expect minor changes" over the next few days. The update will conclude this Friday....
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May. 2, 2007 at 1:23pm by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo Supports New Robots-Nocontent Tag To Block Indexing Within A Page
For over a decade, search engines have supported standards allowing you to prevent pages from being spidered or included within a search index. Today, Yahoo now supports a new twist -- a way to flag that part of your page shouldn't be included in an index. It's called the...
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Apr. 11, 2007 at 8:07am by Danny Sullivan
Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery
Last November, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo united to support sitemaps, a standardized method of submitting web pages through feeds to the search engines. Today, the three are now joined by Ask.com in supporting the system and an extension of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will...
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Apr. 10, 2007 at 5:59pm by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo Site Explorer Takes Mobile Feeds, Gains Report Spam Button
Site Explorer Matures a Bit More and Accepts Mobile Feeds from the Yahoo Search Blog covers how the Yahoo Site Explorer tool now accepts mobile submissions and feeds, gains the ability to input URLs for deletion and remove more than five at a time (see our Yahoo Site Explorer...
