Yahoo Searching
rss feed

Topics related to using Yahoo to search the web. For more background, see Yahoo web search news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
Show Me: Newest | Oldest | Most Sphinns So Far

A fun post from SEL points out some customized search results for Yahoo's rivals. read more »
1 Comment     
Yahoo! is asking one question about the design of the SERPs. Seems like from a random sampling of searchers. read more »
1 Comment     
Yahoo announced (pdf) Q3 revenues this afternoon. Search revenues and performance-based display ads were up. read more »
Discuss     
Noticing that when visiting Yahoo's "Location Near You" link that it is showing competitor locations within the Yahoo Local results page. read more »
Discuss     
BankRate.com has acquired the bankaholic.com blog for $15 million according to recent reports read more »
Discuss     
In July, Yahoo! announced a new API service called Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS), allowing you to do just that. read more »
Discuss     
Indenting has just begun at Yahoo Search. read more »
Discuss     
Nice catch by barry since 2005 till now !! read more »
Discuss     
Finally after Google and Live Search Yahoo has introduced Sitelinks. read more »
2 Comments     
Yahoo! looks to keep following in Google’s footsteps as they are now showing “Googlish” Sitemaps. read more »
Discuss     
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 »
Discuss     
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 »
1 Comment     
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 »
Discuss     
Since this morning, Yahoo! Site Explorer now allows you to filter indexed pages and inbound links by subdomain. read more »
Discuss     
A look at how Yahoo's new geo-detect redirects on Yahoo Search is shaping traffic patterns. read more »
Discuss     
Black Hats are leveraging Google Notebook for linkage to parked landing page spam (this is not new news). What I have noticed is that Yahoo is indexing these spam pages, ranking them and ranking them high! read more »
Discuss     
With the recent Yahoo update we are noticing that Yahoo is flagging harmful websites within their search results. See screen shots of the warnings. read more »
Discuss     
Yahoo’s Partnership with McAfee, Are You Aware?
This article is worth a read. I wasn't aware of the partnership and that you need to contact McAfee if you get blacklisted. Interesting... read more »
Discuss     
Yahoo! as of last night has integrated their development search project, "Search Monkey" into their search listings. I got a demo just before launch and some explanation on how it could change search and revive the semantic web. read more »
Discuss     
So finally Yahoo ! announced its new open platform Yahoo! SearchMonkey, It is open for development! Any developer from anywhere can use SearchMonkey Developer Tool to build there applications that users will be able to add to customize their search read more »
Discuss     
What do us optimisers do when we want to rank sites in foreign countries, or a range of countries? Besides using Google's country specification in Webmaster Tools, who do we optimise for? With limited time, who gets our best attention? We shouldn't read more »
Discuss     
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 »
1 Comment     
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 »
Discuss     
Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) from TechCrunch reports a funny bug at Yahoo, that accidently made it look like Google's home page had Malware on it, based on the Yahoo SearchScan feature that was recently launched. read more »
1 Comment     
Yahoo has introduced an new feature into their algorithm which marks potential websites as dangerous. read more »
Discuss     


Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
SMX West - Feb. 10-12, 2009
SMX Munich - April 22-23, 2009
SMX Social Media Marketing - April 29-30
SMX Advanced - June 2-3, 2009

Search Marketing Now

Learn more about search marketing through free online webcasts and webinars from our sister site Search Marketing Now.

Upcoming Webcasts: