April 21, 2006
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update
We rolled out an index update last night. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index. Those who follow these weather updates may have noticed that they are occurring more frequently; this is the result of improvements to the indexing system.
Thank you all for your input and keep the feedback coming!
Priyank Garg
Product Manager
Yahoo! Search
The updates are not too dramatic – it appears that some of the ALGO tweaking focused on reaccessing Back Links and their effects on ranking
We had google dance, now we have yahoo dance. Better brush up on my dancing lessons.
When is Yahoo going to take the plunge and roll out the AV/Alltheweb SERPS.
Stop playing. Be bold.
Yahoo search engineers should be embarrased to even call these updates.
Why you are not improving my site ranking? I have followed all yahoo webmaster guideline but not result. Please help me.
You all at Yahoo are beginning to impress me. It is nice to see that there are going to be more frequent updates (however small) to your index.
For those of us who still believe in the web, and are not a hugh, multi-national corporation this can only be a good thing. Stagnant results make searchers move to different engines (m-s-n comes to mind) to get the quality results that they are looking for while cutting through the corporate sp@m.
Looking forward (fingers crossed) to more of these updates.
Regards.
A search for “money making ideas” results in :
site no 1 : A search results page from another search engine – might as well make things easier and output every search result from Google!
site no 3 : A static one-page description of “work at home” with 2 huge Adsense blocks – obviously Yahoo! wants to give google revenue…
site no 5 : Home page of a web hosting company! do a search of this page and you won’t even find the word “money”!!!
Nice to see more updates but I still think that Yahoo puts way too much emphasis on backlinks rather than content making the results easy to spam.
well again I think given too much preference to sub-domain sp@mming. All sub-domain ju-nk results are taking over all major positions.
This sub-domain stuff is astoundingly bad, but the number of doorways is also on an upswing — have you looked at the “payday loan” phrases lately? Yikes that’s bad.
NO!
But your on the right path to being number four in Search and The AA #1 Acme Shopping Mall King!
Whats next :)
Are you guys using Yahoo Directory descriptions and title tags in the SERPS instead of what the sites meta title tags say? I noticed that and I prefer to have my site tags as most people do.
I am hoping my rankings in Yahoo will eventually be as high as they are in Google, MSN and the other search engines and directories. I’ve written to Yahoo to see if they have suggestions for the site (online-degrees-and-scholarships.com) but have received no response.
If anyone has suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.
Always yahoo impresses me with new things in the web portals.
:)
My this statement is mainly for MR.Priyank Gard, Yahoo Product Manager? Yes result is changed but SERP is giving unwanted sub-domain , what is the logic behind this.
Mr.Priyank are you satisfied with new SERP.
Regards,
InfyBoy
Congrats on massive improvement in finding changed URLs for existing sites — another search engine (starts with G) is still having major problems finding ‘correct’ URLs — has been finding root computer addresses instead of actual www ‘alias’ addresses at sites indexed for years and years — Yahoo is much faster now in updating site address changes. Thank you.
Im new to all this , so this is Dancing ? :-)
The SERPS are much more on-target. Good show.
As a online retailer, I believe more of the fist generation Internet users rely on Yahoo since it was first to market and not many folks, especially older folks with the money, like change.
This is why I believe that while Google drives more traffic, Yahoo drives more conversions.
Very impressive. I have a couple of queries on subjects that I’m an expert on, which I regularly use to test the quality of different search engines (knowing which high quality websites on these subjects _should_ be returned), and although I realize this is highly subjective, with this latest update you’ve become as good as Google with the results for my little nick of the world.
I seriously considered making you guys my default search engine there – mostly because Google tracks my online activities way too effectively already – but then I noticed that you track my every click on search results. (Google does the same, but through javascript, so I can disable that.) That’s the one thing stopping me from switching to you guys now.
I don’t expect my feelings to make you stop this practice, but who knows, maybe more people feel the same…
Seems that after every update, sites with RSS feeds go missing from the serps or are relegated a couple of pages down. Happened to my site in the early April Update and now in this update. The sites appear to have backtracked to their positions a month or two ago. The “View as XML” and “Add to myYahoo” links are also missing from the down-graded listing descriptions. Please fix this asap.
You ARE causing our sites to look like they’re being penalized when in fact we are legitimate quality sites.
PS: I have recently not been able to find a link to report dead URLs in Yahoo search results == Is there one? You still show a very dead (two years) .edu address — I’m guessing that it is still in your directory, thus showing up — What’s the best way I can get it out — It was mine to maintain — but I have no idea when/how it was put into Yahoo, since it started years before my volunteer involvement…….. Thoughts, anyone ?