August 04, 2008
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update
We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but expect the update will be completed soon.
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Sharad Verma
Yahoo! Search
Some results have completely changed – overall for the better
It looks very similar to the Microsoft Live search results now. Many of the ranked sites seem to have the keyword in their name and that is obviously getting preferential placement. Doesn’t look to good from the searches I have done.
This one of the best updates I’ve seen so far for the Yahoo! search index. I’m only using the Yahoo! Toolbar now. Of course, I search using the other major engines too, but Y! is now my default search engine. Congrats on a great update.
The biggest change is that have gotten rid of most of the social bookmarking or Web 2.0 sites that were in the SERPs.
It was a good experiment, but the results were to vulnerable to spam.
The idea is good in theory, but the algos had to be further tweaked to filter the bad social sites appearing in the results
Many of those results were obvious leftovers from the the early days when those tactics were helpful for getting link popularity on Go ogle
you do a search on yahoo now days, and you get errors and the ranking has gone wild.
Most of the realtor sites i follow, have been replace with .gov, .org
or national sites for local areas. No reason to use yahoo anymore.
keeps getting worse.
I think that no update is bad, as I believe they are there to basically improve the way data is given to the searchers. A couple of points though on this update:
I think it needs a LOT of tweaking. Some of the results to an inquiry I did for a product gave results that are not related or relevant. Also, I saw some deeper pages outranking other site’s home page.
There was a result to one of my searches that showed weird URL’s, which I guess shows session ID’s.
I also observed links to yahoo sites as well as amazon and ebay pages for a search for a certain consumer product. believe me, if I want those pages, i would have gone directly to amazon or ebay.
So far, i think this update is not yet done. i trust the guys at yahoo are doing their best to make this update meaningful to us, their loyal users.
I agree with Chuck, results are poor. You don’t take authoity sites from page 1 to page 3 or 10. Especially for Sponsored search donators to the tune of 60k per year. Very stupid. Much more spam in the index. Might as well file a Chapter 11 today Yahoo or hire new management. Try again. You will loose out big. I can learn to do without Yahoo and many others will do the same.
Hi!
Does this index update affect to mobile phone site?
Yahoo just seems to get better all the time!
Sorry I should be more specific, the search technology is what gets better.
Does this index update affect to medicine site?