Comments on: Yahoo! Launching New Search Index Tonight

By: Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy Zawodny — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:15:18 +0000

The conversation here seems to have wandered off topic and degraded into a discussion of who ‘won’ and ‘lost’ after the update with some name-calling for good measure. We’re disabling comments on this entry.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:36:33 +0000

What the heck did you guys do to the index last night? These results are simply awful. I went looking for things that were at the top of the results just the other day and they had vanished only to be replaced with stuff that’s not as relevant. That’ll teach me to bookmark everything I like from now on.

It was fine as you had it. You should have left it alone.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:30:29 +0000

Thanks for de-rating me with sites that have worse popularity, worse links popularity.

Do a search on “bar plans”, then compare the stats on #2 and #3 to #4. I dropped from #2 to #4 and my competitors rose from nowhere, to above me.
I was stable for many years.
Can’t say I really like the change.
Looks like Google and Yahoo are going to do the MSIE, Netscape thing…no more standardization.

By: Site Tutor

Site Tutor — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:11:23 +0000

What did you like better about them, Mandy?

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:10:15 +0000

I prefered the old Yahoo results – can we go back to those please?

By: TAKU

TAKU — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:23:34 +0000

I was very surprised.
My page disappeared from yahoo.

Let’s do very.

Even if it smoothes one’s feathers, and a new site is made, are you registered?

By: Jason Golod

Jason Golod — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:18:26 +0000

I think the latest major update was pretty good, so far as I have seen. I also want to tip my hat to the team at Yahoo! Search as I think they have made pretty impressive improvements in their search results and features over the past 6 months. SPAM is a problem that every search engine has and will have so long as people make money from the search results. So, I don’t seem the spammers leaving the search results pages anytime soon. I don’t think Yahoo is doing any worse than Google at this point, and that is the “benchmark.”

By: Site Tutor

Site Tutor — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:00:22 +0000

One thing I like is variety. When I want to search for something, I would like to see a huge results that are commercial and sites that are informative. Google has been the information search engine for a very long time and that has made it very popular. When I now type in ” San Diego ” into Yahoo! I seem to get more informative sites. That is very good because it offers a variety of options whether I want to find out about seaworld, the zoo or nightlife.
There are enough commercial airline sites in the advertising section and I don’t believe too many more commercial sites will increase Yahoo!’s popularity too much.
Going back to “cigarettes”, people may also want some cancer information sites or self help groups (discussion boards) as well as of course the ” cheap smokes ” garbage which turns up anyways.

When I search for ” dmoz ” I would like to find dmoz.org, a demos sucks page, a dmoz praise page and a link to a thread in a popular forum about DMOZ.

That is what I believe the web searchers want and I believe that Yahoo! is on the right track.

Thank you for listening.

Mike

By: Site Tutor

Site Tutor — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:42:42 +0000

Sorry guys, but this weblog is not for “why I edit for DMOZ”, “why am I not being ranked” … that is what search engine marketing forums are for.
Mike

By: Please...

Please... — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:03:25 +0000

Site Tutor said: “If you guys are not intelligent enough to see the bigger picture, please refrain from commenting here.”

Apparently, insulting me personally in your various posts above was not sufficient, so now you demonstrate that you are willing to insult anybody whom you disagree with.
Also, I doubt Yahoo has assigned you the position of “Thread Police”. You really are quite boring Site Tutor.

Finally, kudos to Yahoo for the ‘heads-up’ on the update. May it be the harbinger of good things to come.