Comments on: Yahoo search update gets mixed reviews

Webmasters flood chat boards with complaints as Yahoo tweaks search index, algorithm.

[Brad_S]

The devil is in the details, so don't waste your time on the small stuff.

To be a good SEO you have to roll with the punches. I have a new site that was doing great on Yahoo and today it is nowhere to be found. But these things are only temporary, a good site will always recover.

If you run a "clean" white hat SEO'd site and you get dunked by an update don't freak out and start spending hour after hour trying to figure out what went wrong; just stay calm and keep building quality web content, Yahoo will eventually float you back to the top. Rember, when it comes to SEO, the devil is in the details!

One final note, when you have a new web site you need to expect these kinds of hits. Site history and credibility are an important factor with all the 3 majors.

[Earl Benser]

Basic facts...

I don't use Yahoo - Google is much better

Friends have tried Yahoio's photo ablum or whatever Yahoo calls
it. It the worst running image display I have seen - other than
MS's 'Acrylic'. I won't use this feature again on anyone's web site.

Yahoo must have something good going for it. One of these
days, I might get interested in finding out what it is.

[ip_fresh]

Yahoo Update

Yahoo updated Yahoo! Desktop Search today to provide support for Thunderbird, the Mozilla open-source mail client. Thunderbird users on Windows can now use
Yahoo! Desktop Search (Y!DS) to search and find email and email attachments.

Duke Fan, Sr Product Manager, Search Client Team, posted about the update on the Yahoo! Search Blog : We?re excited to introduce three new improvements -

1. Support for Mozilla Thunderbird email client: Indexes all email and attachments in Thunderbird.
2. Simplified UI and tabs: Your feedback was very helpful. Please keep your comments coming either on our message board or with our feedback form
3. Reduced download size: Most of you just need to search emails, MS Office docs, PDFs and other common filetypes. So we?ve made the initial download much faster by splitting out support for the large number of less common filetypes into a separate expansion pack. You can download the free expansion pack at any time, or YDS will let you know when you?ve encountered a filetype that requires it.
(NOTE: if you had version 1.0 or 1.1 of YDS, you will still need to install the expansion pack even though the older versions included all the filetype support. Sorry for the inconvenience this time, but we?ll find a way to make this unnecessary for future upgrades.)

From the release : The winner of PC Magazine?s Editors? Choice Award, Y!DS makes it easy to search for almost anything users have on their hard drives, indexing over 200 file types which also includes emails, attachments, documents, music, images, videos, and more. Using its advantage to leverage the Yahoo! network, Y!DS also searches the address book and Yahoo! Messenger archives.

Note : Jeremy Zawodny totally blasted me last night about not linking to the post on YSearchBlog which I quoted. Here?s Jeremy?s rant :

I?d suggest linking the phrase ?posted about the update? or maybe ?on the Yahoo! Search Blog". But being in the Search business, you know all about choosing good anchor text, right?

***?! Is there not enough room for a little link with that massive AdSense unit smashing their content into a small space above the ?fold"?

No, that can?t be it. Links don?t really take up visual space. So what is it? I know they understand links?their page is full of links to their own content. Just scroll down on that page.

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[wazzledoozle]

Yes im sure that...

These "web masters" have single handedly sorted through all search results for a multitude of queries to determine that it is mostly spam :)

[Dean_Ansari]

Want accurate search results: get AnooX

Look why mess around with the machine generated search results of Yahoo or Google for the best search results? They will never be best search results because they are generated by machines only.
OTOH, AnooX search results are 1st machine generated but then augmented by the majority vote of the People, of us.
www.anoox.com
That is what I call search engine the way it should be: people powered, democratic.

[keeef1]

Yahoo are having serious internal organised crime issues. http://endmafia.com