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 in the index.”

I reported news on the Yahoo update last Friday at the Search Engine Roundtable. Typically, we beat Yahoo to these type of announcements but I don’t think we ever beat them by four full days.

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