March 2010 Yahoo Search Update
Mar 11, 2010 at 9:49am ET by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo announced a search update to their index. The update includes possible updates to Yahoo's crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms.
Dan Rampton, Yahoo's Product Manager said:
The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms. Similar to previous updates, you may notice some ranking changes and page shuffling during the process, which we expect to complete over the next few days.
I have not seen much discussion around fluctuations in Yahoo's search index recently, but maybe some significant changes are coming soon? [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: SEO, Yahoo: Search
Yahoo TimeSense: New Trends Tool Previewed At SMX West
Mar 2, 2010 at 6:54pm ET by Matt McGee
Today's "Real Time Search & The Major Search Engines" session at SMX West took an interesting twist when Yahoo's Ivan Davtchev took the stage to discuss his company's efforts in the real-time search space.
There was some quiet chuckling when Davtchev showed screenshots of a competitor's tool, Google Trends, as a way of determining what queries deserve to get real-time results. But he did so only to contrast a new Yahoo tool called Yahoo TimeSense that, to my knowledge, has never been seen before.
Davtchev described Yahoo TimeSense as the company's version of Google Trends, but (as yo [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Search
AT&T Picks Yahoo Over Google To Provide Search On First Android Phone
Mar 2, 2010 at 6:23pm ET by Matt McGee
Yahoo has scored a spot as the default search engine on the new Motorola Backflip, AT&T's first phone using the Android operating system. The web site Android and Me quotes this hands-on report from Engadget:
Yahoo has replaced Google as the default search provider throughout the phone. It's crazy: the home screen widget, the browser, everything's been programmed to use Yahoo.
Indeed, a Yahoo spokesperson confirms for Search Engine Land that AT&T is using its search services on the Backflip:
We are happy that AT&T has chosen Yahoo! Search as the default mobile search service on the Mo [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Mobile & Go, Yahoo: Search
Super Bowl 2010 Winners: Google, Yahoo & Bing Are Ready
Feb 5, 2010 at 7:37pm ET by Matt McGee
Super Bowl XLIV is two days away, and even though it's always one of the most-watched TV events of the year, the major search engines are also ready for anyone searching for the latest news and information. All three already have Super Bowl shortcuts/oneboxes in place.
Google
Yahoo
Bing
No doubt each search engine will keep those updated all weekend long, and will show the game score as it happens on Sunday.
Bing and Yahoo also shared some info about what fans have been searching for this week in the lead up to Sunday's game. Bing says that the Dallas Cowboys were th [...]
Filed in: Google: OneBox, Plus Box & Direct Answers, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Shortcuts
Finally! Yahoo Search Weather Report : January 2010
Jan 27, 2010 at 3:08pm ET by Barry Schwartz
The Yahoo Search Blog dusts itself off to announce a search update happening right now. The last "weather report" Yahoo announced was in September 2009 - typically, Yahoo would announce these updates monthly.
We actually expected this to be announced. I was tracking a WebmasterWorld thread where SEOs were noticing ranking changes at Yahoo Search. So now we have confirmation.
Yahoo said:
The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms. Similar to previous updates, you may notice some ranking changes and page shuffling during t [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: SEO, Yahoo: Search
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