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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:
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 546 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo Search Suggest has launched, a tool that suggest words to search for as you start typing. Yahoo's not the first to offer this type of feature, but it's nice to see it come to the service. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: trickster 541 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.goodroi.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
I use Yahoo alot, as in I use Yahoo for business and personal most hours that I am awake. Which is why I am surprised that I didn’t notice all of the small little changes they have been making. After taking a step back and giving the Yahoo SERPs a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 20, 2007 - 2:16 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 538 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 Posted By: seoz87 531 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoz.wordpress.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
New Travel Shortcuts In Yahoo Search read more »
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Avatar Posted By: chriswinfield 527 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
A subjective look at 10 Yahoo! properties (News, Messenger, Answers, etc) that are among the leaders in their particular market segment, or are particularly innovative. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SendTraffic 518 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.sendtraffic.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
In an ever growing need to capture market share, improve user satisfaction, and gain user retention rates, Yahoo has just released an updated user interface of its SERP’s. Following in the steps of Ask.com’s new and improved UI, Yahoo has produced a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: graywolf 516 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Shoemoney asks a good question, what would happen if firefox partnered with Yahoo instead of Google read more »
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Avatar Posted By: skinner 512 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.stepforth.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Who agrees with this? I'm still finding Google results more in line with what I'm looking for. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: LocalHound 509 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.convertoffline.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo! Local recently made some changes that will change the face of local forever but will it be enough to dominate Google in this sector as Eric Lander competently asserts? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 507 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Over at Yahoo Audio you can now search and find teasers of tracks available online. Multimedia Search Optimization Campaigns (MSO) enjoy a boost. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 21, 2007 - 5:12 pm
Posted By: toprank 506 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: twdeeter 504 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.web2center.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Upcoming.org is a step in the right direction but Yahoo has a long way to go to catch up to the relevance Google has in the minds of searchers. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: qwerty 476 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo is going to be returning public images from Flickr in image searches, using those images' meta data (i.e., tags) to determine relevance. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattC 470 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Searching
[Forgive me if this has been commented about before]

How well does un-tweaked Wordpress blogs rank in Yahoo. My wordpress blog ranks #4 in Google for my main phrase but in Yahoo I'm #45.

I do use my own domain name for it, but I did check for read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AndrewGirdwood 469 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.compete.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
According to Compete data there are roughly 7.5 billion search queries performed every month by the US Online Population. However there are only about 5 billion search referrals every month. This means that roughly 1/3 of all searches in some sense read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 464 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Searching
I must say that I like the new design and interface that Yahoo! is using for Search.

This morning I was doing a SEO run and my link stats were coming-up blank. I went to see why and, well shucks, everything was different.

Go to http://search.y read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 464 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bruceclay.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Well it seems 'theLisa' is jumping into the Blended Search happenings with a write up on Yahoo's latest roll out... and my head is really starting to spin.. Social Search, Personalized Search, Universal search.... oooo the freakin pain!!!

Thanks read more »
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Avatar Posted By: XMLaficionado 463 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.xmlaficionado.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
First impressions of the new Yahoo Search Assist function read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Devesh 461 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 Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: patrickaltoft 458 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 Posted By: eKstreme 458 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: mprough 450 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seocog.blogspot.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Some irritating results from the recent Yahoo update. Yahoo has done such a nice job creating a great search environment for users...Yet very disappointing to see these things neglected. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: GarryConn 446 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.youtube.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Here is an awesome video that my good friend, David Cooley, created for me for use on www.GarryConn.com. If you have heard about Yahoo Pipes, this is a video tutorial that will show you how to use it. Yahoo Pipes is awesome and I use it to mash up m read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gunjanpandya 444 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo launches oneSearch sms service in India. The service is designed exclusively for mobile phones, and provides consumers anytime, anywhere information on their handsets. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MoneyMarketer 443 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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