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April 03, 2007

Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update & SES Conference Speakers

We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index throughout this process. This update will roll out this evening and will be complete very soon.

Keep the feedback coming or share it with the Yahoo! Search team directly at SES in New York next week! We’ll be presenting at the following panels, so come by for a visit:

  • Sitemaps & URL Submission — Priyank Garg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Search, describes the developments in tools to interface with search engines, such as the Sitemaps protocol and Site Explorer.
  • Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues — Amit Kumar, Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Search, addresses the different concerns and issues of duplicate content and explores various solutions.
  • Robots.txt Summit — Sean Suchter, Director of Yahoo! Search Technology, Yahoo!, discusses opportunities to improve the Robots.txt protocol
  • Meet the Crawlers — Amit Kumar, Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Search, answers questions on Yahoo! Search and our crawler, Yahoo! Slurp
  • Search Engine Q&A on Links — Sean Suchter, Director of Yahoo! Search Technology, Yahoo!, provides answers to the audiences link-based questions.
  • CSS, Ajax, Web 2.0 & Search Engines — Amit Kumar, Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Search, explores issues and solutions, from an SEO perspective, on the new developments in Web 2.0.
  • Social Search Overview — Tomi Poutanen, Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Social Search, discusses opportunities in social search including tagging, click through tracking, search history features and other methods.
  • Meet the Mobile Search Engines — Paul Yiu, Product Manager for Mobile Search, Yahoo! Search Marketing, discusses how mobile search operates and where it may be going.

We hope to see you at SES New York!

Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

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Comments

  1. Dear Yahoo,

    Thanks a lot for this information.
    It makes me know more about you.

    Good luck :)

    Posted by: MES | April 3rd, 2007 6:04 pm

  2. This is a conservative update….in fact it is less of an update as opposed to more updated backlink anchor text being factored in the rankings…

    There still exists the problem of sites included in LOCAL and Yahoo Directory listings – severely loosing their positions in the organic SERPS, this really needs to be addressed – there is no practical reason for this….this flaw REALLY should be addressed

    Here is a general template idea for a future algo update.

    TrustRank = 25%

    BackLink Anchor text = 25%
    (link popularity =13% + Popularity of Links = 12%)

    TITLE = 25%

    Bodytext & MetaTags = 25%

    SearchEnginesWeb may be seeing you at SES NY

    Posted by: Search Engine Web | April 3rd, 2007 9:25 pm

  3. Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues – I’d love to have a copy of this presentation, or an article on this blog covering it.

    Posted by: Ian | April 4th, 2007 6:43 am

  4. Thanks for update us.

    Love to see SPAM free search results ;-)

    Posted by: Search Engine Lead | April 4th, 2007 9:54 am

  5. Not impressed..no spam, clean html, major keyword page 14, its obvious Slurp does not like my web?

    Slurp uses up our bandwidth, costing us money. I would like to remove our web site from Yahoo, will this work?

    User-Agent: Yahoo! Slurp
    Disallow: / Yahoo! Slurp

    Posted by: Blog | April 8th, 2007 5:31 pm

  6. In the recent update, nearly all local Yahoo’s result become worse. When I use a local Yahoo such as Yahoo Hong Kong, I expect the default result will show Hong Kong website on top. However, many keywords only return website from Taiwan, China, USA. It makes the search engine less attractive. e.g. when I want to search for a doctor clinic but you provides result in Taiwan and USA, is it useful to me? Another example is when I try to find “credit card”, but most top 10 results are website from USA, UK, Canada, is it useful to me (I am living in Hong Kong and I don’t think I can apply a USA credit card).

    Posted by: jimsun | April 9th, 2007 10:50 pm

  7. For the past two weeks my site has been losing more and more pages from the index.

    When I do a site: command on Yahoo it shows all of my pages just fine, but slowly one-by-one each page is displaying a blank empty cache – what is going on?

    I checked my robots.txt and everything looks fine and Google is caching my pages just fine.

    Is this a penalty?

    Posted by: Dave Dugdale | April 17th, 2007 5:23 am

  8. The search results are getting worse and worse. New websites with only a few links….

    Posted by: Home Furnishings | May 22nd, 2007 11:01 am

  9. yes, poor search results…..some NOT related websites showup in top 10…

    Posted by: Scented Soy Candles | May 22nd, 2007 11:04 am

  10. Any comments on the search results, after the update this month, seems like it’s out of sync.

    Posted by: Sterling Silver CZ Jewelry | May 22nd, 2007 11:05 am

  11. Thanks for the info guys!

    Posted by: Decorative Pillows & Throw Blankets | May 22nd, 2007 11:07 am

  12. I have found that listings in the search engines have been declining as it relates to quality content.

    Posted by: Long Beach Lawyer | May 27th, 2007 6:04 pm

  13. I agree, many search engines seem to be filling their pages with click ads and have neglected natural results.

    Posted by: Torrance Lawyer | August 6th, 2007 8:55 am

  14. Can anyone provide more information about Robots.txt using. Thanks.

    Posted by: Yuriy | September 4th, 2007 2:30 pm