Comments on: Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

By: Brian Turner

Brian Turner — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:31:49 +0000

It has to be said, the Yahoo! search results have been getting increasingly poor the past couple of months.

On one of my sites – a major authority in its area (loads of links from .edus and .govs) from July 21st it only receives significant visitors from Yahoo! via image search.

Whatever Yahoo! seems to be attempting is not leading to search quality – I’m now more likely to find a dropshipper when searching for a product than a vendor.

Seems like Yahoo! keeps missing the chance to rival Google by shooting themselves in the foot when they can.

By: Jac

Jac — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:16:04 +0000

why are the results so much different between yahoo US and yahoo Canada..is that just a temporary thing (i.e) index out of sync

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:06:41 +0000

Can’t tell anything about your new algo because since the change my pages have been up and down, in and out, all over the place !

By: Squiggs

Squiggs — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:42:21 +0000

Looking over it, I see pretty good results until you get into the high competition terms. Lots of spammy domain names seem to be ranking well and that was the recent downfall of relevancy in MSN.

My suggestion: Don’t give so much weight to keywords in the URL.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:13:50 +0000

Far too much importance has been placed on having keywords in the URl, resulting in spammy sites showing up on pages one and two. MSN suffers from the same shortcoming.

Google on the other hand has perfected the balance needed to bring relevant pages to page one and two.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:07:37 +0000

Yahoo Canada results are very relevant and close to Googles results.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:03:37 +0000

Results look very funny in my industry.

PDF files from subpages rank better than the main page for a certain keyword. This is the case for most keywords (about 20) that I checked.

By: Seo

Seo — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:47:51 +0000

MSN has just move up on my list for relevancy.
#1 ASK
#2 MSN
#3 Google
#4 Yahoo far behind after last update sunday.

By: Garth

Garth — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:46:42 +0000

yes, canada results rock. Looks like they are messing with the results to give bad results to get $$$$ for payperclicks. Just set your search to canada.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:35:38 +0000

Yeah pretty bad stuff, i did a search for real estate in my area .
Only 2 realtors came up both were the same company, A bunch of strange sites came up just because the keyword was in the domain name, also some russian site moved up to the 1 page. Time to get some new people at yahoo. Yahoo is now a non- search engine.
by the way, The canada results are the best puts them above google and msn.
http://ca.search.yahoo.com