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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: ColinCochrane 237 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: April 28, 2008 - 7:56 pm
Posted By: iBrian 166 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: August 20, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: rustybrick 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Indenting has just begun at Yahoo Search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: patrickaltoft 368 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 3:04 am
Posted By: theGypsy 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski

SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be cons read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Calamier 220 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: July 20, 2007 - 2:16 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 448 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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Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 6:02 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 271 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: August 21, 2007 - 5:12 pm
Posted By: toprank 416 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 »
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Avatar Posted By: annie7 235 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Future search, or future retrieval, might be able to support the making of decisions in many different fields. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: eKstreme 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ekstreme.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
The Yahoo! SERPs now include an embedded RSS feed that points to the Yahoo! API, exactly as a blog embeds a feed you can subscribe to. Very cool and very useful! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: philbutler 83 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
In the name of Google, and of Microsoft and of Yahoo!… Amen!

This is what the search world looks like since a few years. We fail to talk about something else when it comes to search engines. Even when pretty faces like Powerset and hakia dare to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Kalena 216 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ask-kalena.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
For the past 3 months my site would appear on page 1 of Yahoo when my “girly party” or “girly party” was typed into the search engine. Recently I’ve noticed that I don’t even appear in the top 10 pages. How could this have happened? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Devesh 371 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.unofficialseoblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
If yours is a news based site or if your website needs to make any announcement than Yahoo! Upcoming is a great platform to announce. Think of how a press release helps in optimizing your site, this works in a similar pattern. But, Yahoo! Upcoming h read more »
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Avatar Posted By: northrock 93 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo! has just unveiled the next phase in their plan to spur search innovation by providing search-related resources to developers. The Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) enables developers to access Yahoo! search results, combine them wit read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Chris Sherman writes, "Today, at the inaugural Search Marketing Expo West conference, Yahoo plans to unveil a project code-named "Search Monkey," a set of open-source tools that allow users and publishers to annotate and enhance search results assoc read more »
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Avatar Posted By: annie7 256 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adage.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Google's won search. Yahoo can't compete, so why not get out? Should Yahoo let Google serve up search results and ads and just take a percentage. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: g1smd 318 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.itbusiness.ca)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Users of Yahoo Search may soon be able to do a structured search around select terms, rather than navigate through a large number of search results.



The company plans to offer a new structured search to make the Web easier to navigate. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: miguelstil 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://web-hosting.tophostingcenter.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo! announced not long ago the release of the new Yahoo!Search open platform. What happens next? What are the impacts on SEO and which other search engines can compete with Yahoo!Search in the future? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 261 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
When you start typing a query into the search box at Yahoo, you’ll see a dropdown appear under the search box with some suggestions predicting queries that you may want to see results for.

Presently you only see those suggestions for Web search r read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eish 156 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo has launched Glue Pages Beta in Yahoo India. Glue Pages are specialized pages that contain an enhanced visual search result page, for select search queries. The search results that trigger the special "Glue Pages" run across searches in health read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eavesy 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Searching
I am pleased to report that this morning when I attempted to go to http://www.yahoo.com I was redirected to the UK version http://uk.yahoo.com. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MoneyMarketer 353 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Searching
How is Yahoo secretly profiting off their organic results?

By stuffing third party cookies into your browser of course. As you search for plane tickets yahoo is cloaking links to www.247realmedia.com (An Internet Marketing Company) before landing read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.labnol.org)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Google is the world’s favorite web search engine but there are a couple of cool things that you can do only in Yahoo!. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ankitrawat 81 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Nice catch by barry since 2005 till now !! read more »
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