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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 7:56 pm
Posted By: iBrian 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo search just doesn't understand user experience - no wonder it lags behind Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Calamier 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
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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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: ColinCochrane 140 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 6:02 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
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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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: patrickaltoft 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo Site Explorer has just had a big backlink update making link counts a LOT lower. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2007 - 5:12 pm
Posted By: toprank 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Tim Mayer, VP of Search at Yahoo answers this question (thanks Mike Grehan) and more in a short video interview during SES San Jose. Thanks to Tim for being such a good sport! read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 20, 2007 - 2:16 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 351 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
"Yesterday I attended the Internet strategy conference in Portland, and one of the speakers was Cammie Dunaway, the chief marketing officer for Yahoo.

During her presentation, she explained some new ways that Yahoo is working with advertisers, an read more »
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