Comments on: Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

By: W3Search

W3Search — Wed, 03 May 2006 13:30:26 +0000

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 ?

By: Yahooer

Yahooer — Tue, 02 May 2006 01:20:38 +0000

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.

By: Not-Customer

Not-Customer — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:27:03 +0000

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…

By: sebastian

sebastian — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:22:05 +0000

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.

By: www.sparksflying.com

www.sparksflying.com — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:14:33 +0000

Im new to all this , so this is Dancing ? :-)

By: W3Search

W3Search — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:47:56 +0000

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.

By: iiplTeam

iiplTeam — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:54:31 +0000

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

By: Yuvaraj

Yuvaraj — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:40:54 +0000

Always yahoo impresses me with new things in the web portals.

By: Dan Rosenfield

Dan Rosenfield — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:00:49 +0000

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.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:45:26 +0000

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.