Yahoo Fixes Lower Case Titles Bug In Search Results

Jan 24, 2007 at 9:10am ET by Barry Schwartz

A week ago, we thought that Lower Case Titles In Yahoo Coming From Anchor Text, and asked Yahoo about it. Tim Mayer of Yahoo has commented on original post at the Search Engine Roundtable saying that this has now been fixed. And, based on the examples in our post from last week, a search on searchbliss now brings up the title tag from that page and does not use internal anchor text (as we theorized) in the Yahoo search results. I have before and after screen captures over here.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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5 COMMENTS ON Yahoo Fixes Lower Case Titles Bug In Search Results

Lucky Lester, January 24th, 2007 at 3:46 pm ET:

Seems to have worked on my site. Now if they would only deal with the old directory listings that run interference on certain domains. Having exchanged emails on the subject with the good people at Yahoo, they are aware of the issue but a little slow to address the problem.

f-lops-y, January 24th, 2007 at 5:28 pm ET:

hey Lucky, I have the same problem with some of my sites. Did they say if or when they WOULD address the issues?

rustybrick, January 24th, 2007 at 5:44 pm ET:

It should be fixed now…

Lucky Lester, January 24th, 2007 at 6:14 pm ET:

f-lops-y… If you are referring to the issue about the old directory listings interfering with the organic results then no they didn’t say when they would fix that. Although they did say that this was the reason why the site wasn’t listing in their organic results and that they would address it, they have yet to remove the old directory listings. It has been about 4 months or so now. Sure glad other businesses don’t deal with known issues that interfere with their services the way Yahoo does.

f-lops-y, January 27th, 2007 at 11:24 pm ET:

hey Lucky, yes I was, and thanks for the feedback – for a while I thought it was just my sites. No rusty – not fixed – and been 3 months for me, and 4 months for Lucky. We have a little leverage with Y, and we’re working on it.

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