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The oldest of the web's major search engines, Yahoo is arguably the most successful competitor to Google, in terms of coverage of the web, use by searchers and advertising reach. For more background, see Yahoo news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2008 - 6:07 am
Posted By: rustybrick 1 day 1 hour 24 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Indenting has just begun at Yahoo Search. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Posted By: cledford 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.3tailer.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
6 easy steps to 301ing your Yahoo! store. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 1:33 am
Posted By: ViperChill 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo SEO
A strange new bug in the search feature of the Yahoo Directory seems to be showing sites either hosted or extensively cross-linked with the site you are searching for. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 3:04 am
Posted By: theGypsy 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Some interesting forward thinking from the folks at Yahoo as translated by the one and only Bill Slawski

SEO by the Sea - With an increase in recent years of social sites that contain lists of sites or songs or videos, search engines may be cons read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: robsnell 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seminhouse.com)
Category: Yahoo
When life hands you lemons, don't just make lemonade! Think bigger than that! Roll out a nationwide chain of lemonade stands and cash out with an IPO. SEO Jessica Bowman was one of the first in the Yahoo! Brains to drain, but look who's laughing all read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:57 pm
Posted By: andrewsho 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 22, 2008 - 9:21 am
Posted By: seanmag 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Stephen T, in-house SEO at LocateTV does an outstanding job visually walking us through the process of implementing enhanced listing parameters in Yahoo SearchMonkey, with SERP results that include photos, links, etc.

Applying these tactics cou read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 6:54 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
SEMpdx Member Tracy Chapman shares with the Yahoo PPC folks (and us) why she won't allow her Yahoo accounts to be optimized without her consent. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Posted By: annie7 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo
The Yahoo patent application introduces the idea of a search category commercialization index, which could be calculated by looking at two or more metrics: (1) Number of searches within the category; (2) Number of total advertisers in the category; read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 30, 2008 - 6:06 pm
Posted By: Sugarrae 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bbgeeks.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Earlier this month, Yahoo! unveiled its new oneSearch, which includes voice-based search. Since this was an exclusive BlackBerry download, I decided to give it a test run. We were told by Yahoo! execs that oneSearch will learn my style of speech ove read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 28, 2008 - 7:56 pm
Posted By: iBrian 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Yahoo search just doesn't understand user experience - no wonder it lags behind Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 3:40 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 127 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Yahoo has announced the launch of their new crawler, Yahoo! Slurp 3.0. 3.0 is slowly being pushed out over the course of the "next several weeks," including "some infrastructure updates," Yahoo said. I suspect the recent changes we reported with the read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 14, 2008 - 7:50 am
Posted By: rustybrick 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Lots of reports about a weekend Yahoo Search update. No official word from Yahoo yet, but it seems like we got a major Yahoo update going on. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 10, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Posted By: SnoopBloggyBlog 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.betanews.com)
Category: Yahoo
In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google's ads on its own pages, calling the test a "strategic alternative." Microsoft isn't happy and quickly read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 3:01 pm
Posted By: WebGeek 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Yahoo
Apparently the line has been drawn in the sand by Microsoft's Steve Balmer in a letter sent to Yahoo today. That line is three weeks to see some kind of progress in Microsoft's bid to take over Yahoo! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 24, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Search Engine Land - There is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user generated content in their local product. These affiliate spammers are deceptively providing a "service" that is unneeded and unwanted. Whatever they a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 14, 2008 - 10:01 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 160 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today - expect an announcement in an hour or so that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that previous announcement, Yahoo talked about their plans to allow th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: Calamier 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Yahoo Searching
Rand Fishkin talks about Yahoo's new Open Search Platform, which allows site owners to supply Yahoo with information and customize the way their SERP results appear. There is also a brief interview with Amit Kumar, an engineer from Yahoo who had th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 169 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
- SEO by the SEA - How well can an algorithm determine how “cluttered” a web page is, as opposed to an actual person making the same determination? That’s hard to say for certain. With so many pages on the web, asking people to review pages for clut read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
- SEO by the SEA - What I found most interesting about the document was the change in focus of a search engine from crawling and understanding individual pages to understanding how pages within a site relate to each other.

How do the topics and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 1:13 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ysearchblog.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
That's right -- you heard it correctly -- the Yahoo! Search experience will soon be open. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 5:57 am
Posted By: identity 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.cnet.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
With Flickr's recent change of adding nofollows, be sure to check out the links that, at least so far, are still nofollow free. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 21, 2008 - 11:15 am
Posted By: Gab 181 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Yahoo Other
Flickr, once a popular source of dofollow links for SEOs has recently turned its links to nofollow automatically! Whereas you could link to your site(s) before and pass juice, now external links are nofollowed. This raises important issues:

1) Is read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 7:40 am
Posted By: ColinCochrane 185 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
It appears that within the past 2-3 days the popular social book-marking site del.icio.us has started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site.

This isn't a simple robots.txt exclusion either, but rather a 404 response t read more »
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