Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update
- Posted April 7th, 2009 at 9:33 am by Yahoo! Search
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We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days and expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.
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Dan Rampton
Yahoo! Search
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Looking forward to seeing the results of these changes.
My large, quality site has been HAMMERED in the Y results… Most pages have fallen of the radar, some completely.
This site is an authority in it’s vertical. Tell me there’s some sort of dance going on…
Looking forward to seeing the results of these changes.
I WANT yahoo to quit grabbing control of all my attachements in E mail. I can’t even read a simple attached letter because when I click on the attachement in E-mail it opens a Yahoo Page.
Just quit doing that. I’m an Email user, not y’r slave. Disconnect that feature. it’s useless, annoying, get’s in y way and makes me nostalgic for AOLKin-every-thing — which to get away from, is why I went to Ya-you.
I disconnected everything I canfind to disconnect from Yahoo and you still are controlling my choices. Stop it, This is not Kindergarten.
I agree with Sam, we are too a extremely strong site within our vertical and have been taken in the past by this algorithm. Hopefully these updates will change this.
I have noticed this on a regular basis, so I thought I’d bring this to your attention. Why is it that Google provides relevant links to Yahoo pages (esp. Yahoo Answers) in search results but Yahoo Search doesn’t? For instance, I searched for “free iso extractor” in both Yahoo and Google and got a Yahoo! Answers result via Google but not Yahoo.
Yahoo! Answers is one of the best examples of user-generated content out there. It’s a shame that Yahoo! Search doesn’t index and effectively prioritize this content.
Yes , please do that :)
we really would like the alternative to google *work*
I welcome the initiative , and unfortunately wikia had to shut down .. :(
A lot of my site’s pages no longer seem to be indexed by Yahoo Search (this changed recently). A pity really. Google seems to be doing fine with our content, I hope whatever fixes/improvements get rolled out in the future will remedy this.
Looking forward to seeing the results from yahoo change.
Pweh! Took me a while to find somewhere to discuss this…
My site (ranked around #5 on my most important keyword for about 8 years) dropped from the rankings completely somewhere between March 22-30. Just checked, around 19k pages still indexed, with about the same amount of inlinks.
Could this be due to this update?
There should be a search update for the first days of August since there are a lot of sites that have been deleted, are still appearing. Or the yahoo spider should update its search cache. Thanks to the yahoo team.
Well done yahoo team look forward to seeing the results.
Looking forward to seeing the results from yahoo change.