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Yahoo introduces “robots-nocontent” tag

Posted by Ravi on May 4th, 2007 filed in yahoo

With the Robots no-content tag, Webmasters can now mark parts of a page with a ‘robots-nocontent’ tag which will indicate to Yahoo slurp to recognize what parts of a page are unrelated to the main content and are only useful for visitors. TThis means that the terms contained in these special tagged sections as information [...]

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Yahoo’s site Indexing filters

Posted by Ravi on March 4th, 2007 filed in Uncategorized, research, search engine spiders, yahoo

Why does Yahoo index only few pages of the site despite it being a popular site that does well in all other search engines?
For Yahoo this is the typical sign of a ban. Go over everything on the site. Pay special attention to any linking that might appear to be the least bit dubious; Y! [...]

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Google’s products lack in Usability

Posted by Ravi on March 1st, 2007 filed in Ask, research, search engine wars, swicki, web 2.0 search engine, web usability, yahoo

Google’s stuff lacks the usability of Yahoo’s services, the “intimate connection in usability” Yahoo has with its users.
Comparing usage of Yahoo’s email and instant messaging versus those from Google. Yahoo has a big edge in email users, with 249 million. Gmail has picked up 60 million users.
On the Instant desktop messenger side, Yahoo’s 77.9 million [...]

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Yahoo search submit basic revamp

Posted by Ravi on February 27th, 2007 filed in SEO, news, research, search engine wars, search technology, yahoo

Search Submit Basic enables you to submit up to 5 URLs per domain for inclusion in non-sponsored search results on Yahoo!, and other portals such as AltaVista and AllTheWeb.
Your URLs are refreshed (re-crawled) every 7 business days to ensure that the most up-to-date content is available to search users.
When you initiate your Search Submit Basic [...]

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World’s First ” Web 2.0 Live Ask Engine” for Users – Jyve

Jyve, the world’s first “web 2.0 live ask engine,”(probably the first web2.0 search engine) is more targeted than Googling, and more interactive than Ask.com and more helpful than asking “guides” with no interest in a topic, Jyve creates live conversations between people with self-defined common interests for live help and technical peer support.
Jyve believes [...]

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