Yahoo! Slurp 3.0

Yahoo! Slurp 3.0

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As the new software undergoes a phased rollout to our production crawlers over the next several weeks, you'll see the following changes:

a) The crawlers will start crawling from a different and much smaller set of IP addresses, but it'll still be from the crawl.yahoo.net domain. Any reverse DNS checks to identify our crawler will continue to work. Please note that if you're using IP-based recognition of our crawlers, you might see a drop in crawl/coverage from Yahoo! We strongly recommend that you move to reverse DNS-based identification of Yahoo! Slurp if you're using any other method to avoid this problem. The current set of IPs will disappear from your web logs in the next several weeks.

b) The crawlers will also publish a new user-agent, 'Yahoo! Slurp/3.0.' Existing robots.txt directives for 'Slurp' or 'Yahoo! Slurp' will continue to work, but if you have directives specific to 'Slurp/2.0,' they won't be recognized by the new crawler (though usage of the 'Slurp/2.0' user-agent is very rare on the web, so you won't likely be affected). We recommend specifying the shorter version of: User-agent: Slurp.

These changes will affect the main Yahoo! Web Search crawlers. Crawlers that similarly respect the Yahoo! Slurp directive but identify themselves more specifically, such as Yahoo! Slurp China and others, will not be impacted.

source: ysearchblog

YAHOO! Latest News SMX Sumit

YAHOO! Latest News SMX Sumit

Tuesday, February 26
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Decrypting Quality Scores
David Pann, Vice President, Marketplace Design and Matching

10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Search 3.0 Track: The Blended Search Revolution
Cris Pierry, Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search

1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Search 3.0 Track: Video, Images & Blended Results
Cris Pierry, Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search

3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Search 3.0 Track: Local Search & Blended Results
Brian Gil, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Local

3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
The Economics of Search
Michael Schwarz, Marketplace Designer, Yahoo! Research

4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
Search 3.0: Online Retail & Blended Results
Ken Kronquist, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Shopping


Wednesday, February 27
10:45am - 12:00 p.m.
Search 4.0 Track: The Personalized Search Revolution
Cris Pierry, Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search

10:45 am - 12:00 p.m.
Marketing Track: Branding & Search
Edwin Wong, Senior Market Research Manager, Yahoo! Search Marketing

1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Search 4.0 Track: Will the Social Graph Change Search?
Cris Pierry, Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search

3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Search 4.0 Track: Search Ads & Behavioral Targeting
David Kopp, Senior Director Product Strategy for Category Solutions

4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
Paid Search Roundtable
Dmitri Krakovsky, Vice President of Products, Online Channel

4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
SEO Track: Search Engineers Q&A
Sean Suchter, Vice President of Engineering, Yahoo! Search


Thursday, February 28
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Keynote: Generation Next: Search in the Coming Decade
Larry Heck, Vice President of Search and Advertising Sciences

2:45 - 3:45 p.m.
SEO & Linking Track: Linking Q&A
Priyank Garg, Director Product Management, Yahoo! Search



source: ysearchblog

Latest Yahoo News - Latest Yahoo! News Updates - Yahoo(Mr. Yang)

Latest yahoo! news: Updated Yahoo ! Mr. Yang the Bold Man!
Yahoo's update -> Mr. Yang, a cerebral, highly analytic executive who, by all accounts, cares deeply about the company he helped build and its workers, appears to have run out of time to answer those questions. A $44.6 billion bid from Microsoft is once again forcing Mr. Yang and his board to consider the viability of Yahoo as an independent company.


This time, Mr. Yang, 39, faces enormous pressure as he decides whether to try to rescue the company from the clutches of Microsoft, or accept the bid and watch Yahoo become part of Microsoft’s arsenal in its no-holds-barred brawl with Google.


Mr. Yang had quickly set priorities and laid out a precise strategy for making Yahoo more competitive.

Mr. Yang is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley history. He helped build Yahoo from an early directory of Web sites into a sprawling Internet giant that offers services from online dating to e-mail that are used by nearly 500 million people around the globe. His wealth is estimated to top $2 billion.

On Wall Street, patience was running thin. Yahoo shares kept declining, from a high of more than $34 in October to about $24 at the end of the year and a low of $18.58 last week.

“We are still trying to do too many things, and fund them in a way that we need to in order to win,” said a senior executive who has grown disillusioned with Mr. Yang. “With the stock at $24 or $25, we’d be having a very different conversation now. But there were decisions made that were naive that have left us in a position where we can’t control our destiny.”

Mr. Yang himself, at times, suggested that some of the burdens of his new role weighed heavily on him. Speaking to Yahoo advertisers at a conference in October, he described the chief executive job as “lonely.”

Mr. Yang and Ms. Decker were quick to outline Yahoo’s top priorities: becoming a starting point for consumers on the Web, developing technology and relationships to sell ads on Yahoo and other Web sites, and opening up Yahoo to outside programmers and publishers.

“As a founder everybody loves you,” he said. “When you become C.E.O., you can tell somewhat the behaviors change.” He later added: “You have to make tough calls.”

source : nytimes

Google Yahoo Updates

Yahoo going for Google alliance?

Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) would consider a business alliance with Google Inc (GOOG.O) as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.

In a memo to Yahoo employees on Friday, which was obtained by Reuters on Sunday, Yahoo leaders wrote: "We want to emphasize that absolutely no decisions have been made -- and, despite what some people have tried to suggest, there's certainly no integration process underway."

Microsoft executives cited industry data showing Google has a 75 percent share of worldwide Web search revenue. Collectively, Yahoo and Microsoft attract around 20 percent of Web searches, Internet measurement firms show.

"Today, Google is the dominant search engine and advertising company on the Web," Smith said in replying to Google on Sunday. "Google has amassed about 75 percent of paid search revenues worldwide and its share continues to grow."

source : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080204/bs_nm/yahoo_microsoft_alliances_dc

Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines

Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines - Yahoo

• Original and unique content of genuine value
• Pages designed primarily for humans, with search engine considerations secondary
• Links intended to help people find interesting, related content, when applicable
• Metadata (including title and description) that accurately describes the contents of a web page
• Good web design in general

Unfortunately, not all web pages contain information that is valuable to a user. Some pages are created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant or poor-quality search results; this is often called "spam." Yahoo! does not want these pages in the index.

Yahoo! Considers Unwanted:

Some, but not all, examples of the more common types of content that Yahoo! does not want include:
• Pages that harm accuracy, diversity or relevance of search results
• Pages dedicated to directing the user to another page (doorway pages)
• Multiple sites or pages offering substantially the same content
• Pages that rely heavily on content or links to content created for another web site, such as affiliate content
• Sites with numerous, unnecessary virtual hostnames
• Pages in great quantity, automatically generated or of little value (cookie-cutter pages)
• Pages using methods to artificially inflate search engine ranking
• The use of text or links hidden from the user
• Pages that give the search engine different content than what the end user sees (cloaking)
• Sites cross-linked excessively with other sites to inflate a site's apparent popularity (link schemes)
• Pages built primarily for the search engines or pages with excessive or irrelevant keywords
• Misuse or inaccurate use of competitor or brand names
• Sites that use excessive pop-ups, install malware (i.e. spyware, viruses, trojans), or interfering with user navigation
• Pages that seem deceptive, fraudulent, or provide a poor user experience

source : yahoo

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