Comments on: Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

By: vitiligo

vitiligo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:15:17 +0000

Does this index update affect to medicine site?

By: Nappy Rash Baby Cream

Nappy Rash Baby Cream — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:19:58 +0000

Sorry I should be more specific, the search technology is what gets better.

By: Nappy Rash Baby CReam

Nappy Rash Baby CReam — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:17:58 +0000

Yahoo just seems to get better all the time!

By: mchouse

mchouse — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:05:44 +0000

Hi!
Does this index update affect to mobile phone site?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:18:08 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:00 +0000

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.

By: Hawaii

Hawaii — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:18:29 +0000

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.

By: hgh

hgh — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:13:40 +0000

you do a search on yahoo now days, and you get errors and the ranking has gone wild.

By: PublicRelations

PublicRelations — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:22:58 +0000

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

By: DB

DB — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:16:33 +0000

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.