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The oldest of the web's major search engines, Yahoo is arguably the most successful competitor to Google, in terms of coverage of the web, use by searchers and advertising reach. For more background, see Yahoo news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Yahoo! oneSearch: 28 days later
Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 6:06 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bbgeeks.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Other
Earlier this month, Yahoo! unveiled its new oneSearch, which includes voice-based search. Since this was an exclusive BlackBerry download, I decided to give it a test run. We were told by Yahoo! execs that oneSearch will learn my style of speech ove read more »
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10 reasons why Yahoo search sucks
Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 7:56 pm
Posted By: iBrian 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk) my network
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo search just doesn't understand user experience - no wonder it lags behind Google. read more »
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Introducing New Bot: Yahoo Slurp 3.0
Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 3:40 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
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 read more »
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Yahoo Search 'Tax Day' Update
Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: rustybrick 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com) my network
Category: Yahoo SEO
Lots of reports about a weekend Yahoo Search update. No official word from Yahoo yet, but it seems like we got a major Yahoo update going on. read more »
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Yahoo to Test Run Google Ads Alongside its Search Results
Avatar Went Hot: April 10, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: SnoopBloggyBlog 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.betanews.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google's ads on its own pages, calling the test a "strategic alternative." Microsoft isn't happy and quickly read more »
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Microsoft to Yahoo - 3 Weeks and Counting
Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 3:01 pm
Posted By: WebGeek 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
Apparently the line has been drawn in the sand by Microsoft's Steve Balmer in a letter sent to Yahoo today. That line is three weeks to see some kind of progress in Microsoft's bid to take over Yahoo! read more »
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A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam
Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Other
Search Engine Land - There is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user generated content in their local product. These affiliate spammers are deceptively providing a "service" that is unneeded and unwanted. Whatever they a read more »
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Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web
Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 10:01 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today - expect an announcement in an hour or so that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that previous announcement, Yahoo talked about their plans to allow th read more »
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Yahoo!'s Open Search Platform - Could this Be the Future of Search?
Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Calamier 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org) my network
Category: Yahoo Searching
Rand Fishkin talks about Yahoo's new Open Search Platform, which allows site owners to supply Yahoo with information and customize the way their SERP results appear. There is also a brief interview with Amit Kumar, an engineer from Yahoo who had th read more »
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Yahoo Automates Usability Consulting
Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Yahoo SEO
- SEO by the SEA - How well can an algorithm determine how “cluttered” a web page is, as opposed to an actual person making the same determination? That’s hard to say for certain. With so many pages on the web, asking people to review pages for clut read more »
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Yahoo on Segmenting Web Sites into Topical Hierarchies
Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Yahoo SEO
- SEO by the SEA - What I found most interesting about the document was the change in focus of a search engine from crawling and understanding individual pages to understanding how pages within a site relate to each other.

How do the topics and read more »
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Yahoo - An Open Approach to Search
Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 1:13 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com) my network
Category: Yahoo SEO
That's right -- you heard it correctly -- the Yahoo! Search experience will soon be open. read more »
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Flickr adds nofollow tags to photo descriptions
Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 5:57 am
Posted By: identity 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.cnet.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Other
With Flickr's recent change of adding nofollows, be sure to check out the links that, at least so far, are still nofollow free. read more »
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News: Flickr Goes Nofollow! Also, Is This The Future of UGC?
Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 11:15 am
Posted By: Gab 84 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion my network
Category: Yahoo Other
Flickr, once a popular source of dofollow links for SEOs has recently turned its links to nofollow automatically! Whereas you could link to your site(s) before and pass juice, now external links are nofollowed. This raises important issues:

1) Is read more »
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del.icio.us Bans Search Engine Spiders
Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: ColinCochrane 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Searching
It appears that within the past 2-3 days the popular social book-marking site del.icio.us has started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site.

This isn't a simple robots.txt exclusion either, but rather a 404 response t read more »
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Jessica Bowman Yahoo’s Senior SEO Manager Laid Off, On the Market
Avatar Went Hot: February 17, 2008 - 12:31 am
Posted By: LtDraper 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Other
I think the title says it all. read more »
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Yahoo Layoffs Happening
Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 12:09 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
The expected Yahoo layoffs started a few hours ago. Two very good people I know are among those cut. No doubt we're going to be hearing from many more. Not much more to report about it at the moment, but I expect over the coming day, we'll have a be read more »
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Yahoo Phrase Based Indexing in a Nutshell
Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 10:12 am
Posted By: dedmond29 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
SEO by the Sea takes a detailed look at a Yahoo patent application which describes a number of the ways to learn and understand the use of phrases in documents on the Web.

Longer post but worth the time to read for those interested in how search read more »
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Collecting User Data for Web Site Profiling
Avatar Went Hot: February 4, 2008 - 9:27 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Yahoo SEO
These patent documents provide a peek at how some data collected about how people use the Web, and about the Web itself, may impact both search and advertising on the Web. read more »
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Yahoo Laying Off 1,000 Employees; Names New CTO
Avatar Went Hot: January 31, 2008 - 6:08 am
Posted By: bhartzer 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
After weeks of speculation, Yahoo announced on their fourth quarter earnings conference call that they will indeed be making layoffs, though a specific number was not given, according to CNBC. read more »
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Who Really Could Buy Yahoo And Succeed
Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 8:44 pm
Posted By: stuntdubl 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smart-keywords.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Other
Frank Watson's counterpoint to the New York Post article about companies interested in buying Yahoo! now that it is below $24 a share.

Is the M$ Yahoo buyout imminent? read more »
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Yahoo Tests Delicious Integration In Search Results
Avatar Went Hot: January 23, 2008 - 5:04 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
Well it seems on of the Big 3 decided to take a stab at playing in the social spaces. I am going to go play with it... cya!!

Search Engine Land - Yahoo has sent word that they are testing integration of data from their Delicious social bookmarkin read more »
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Yahoo Integrates Delicious Into Organic Search Results
Avatar Went Hot: January 20, 2008 - 9:47 am
Posted By: JeremyLuebke 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
Techcrunch just got word that Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages (Yahoo acquired Delicious in late 2005). Some users will see the Delicious icon as part of their normal search resul read more »
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Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data
Avatar Went Hot: January 16, 2008 - 8:05 am
Posted By: billslawski 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Yahoo
It’s good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data.

A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes read more »
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Yahoo on Testing Relevance and Variety in Search Results
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 6:02 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com) my network
Category: Yahoo Searching
Bill Slawski provides insight to Yahoo's "Also Try" suggestions by means of the "Automatic relevance and variety checking for web and vertical search engines" patent.

Doing the math: Determining the applications functions by using simple query lo read more »
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