Comments on: Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

By: Hans Husman

Hans Husman — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:14:48 +0000

Your search results for swedish is *much* now compared to earlier. It looks very good and I will be sure to recommend your search enginee to our readers.

Google.se (swedish) on the other hand seem to have given up on quality on large amount of the search results are nothing but small spam sites running adsense.

The question is if this is a general strategi for boosting adsense profit or if Google have knowledge, quality assurance problem or problems with the algorithm?

By: stoudemira

stoudemira — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:10:13 +0000

can i ask what are the basis of Yahoo! to make the site appear at the first page? I mean do they base it on the content? on the keyword density and prominence? or on back links? I’m referring to the latest update that recently happened. thank you!

By: RLF

RLF — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:27:55 +0000

I’m tired of comparisons to Google. Yahoo has constantly improved over the past 10 years, and G has just become confusings and mysterious. Not always happy with Yahoo’s results but I try Y first because I know what to expect. – Search terms appearing on the target page and not the titles of pages linking to a page. Your site explorer and tools to help web professionals are unsurpassed. Seems like ASK and MSN ought to adopt a more “open source” philosophy like Yahoo has and put an end to G’s unearned popularity. Keep working hard guys, many of us appreciate it.

By: gw

gw — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:26:38 +0000

good work!

By: Blog

Blog — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:30:45 +0000

I have been studying the new results, some Spam improvement but sites with 10 or duplicate webs/pages all moved up. Our web logs show a 20%+/- decrease in traffic from Yahoo Search and Image. Not certain if this is an improvement.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:50:55 +0000

My pagerank is about the same. I do wish there was another standard for those of us who write niche blogs for small but involved audiences rather than for general audiences.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:39:32 +0000

Your algo changes at Yahoo are making your search results look more and more like Google’s search results and Google really sucks these days so I guess your goal is to be as bad a search engine as Google has become. The results and algo you had about 4 months ago on back were a million times better then your new ones the past few months. Hopefully either you’ll listen or a new search engine will come along one of these days that understands what search is all about.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:44:10 +0000

These results are leaps and bounds better than the last weather update. It appears that the value placed on having keywords in the URL has gone down (thank goodness), but is still a little too high.

I would have to say that these results are looking much better than I would have expected.

Cliff

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:02:54 +0000

Looks much better this time.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:15:41 +0000

These are the best Yahoo results I have seen in a long time. Very relevant and a lot of the spam is gone. Great job!!!