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 in the index.” I reported […]

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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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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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