mfishy - 10:48 pm on Feb 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

Yahoo really has not fully updated it's index in months. The data they are using to score sites may be 5-6 months old. What do you smart folk figure is going on over there? Tech issues? Don't care anymore? Lazy?

It's interesting as when Yahoo! first launched on their own most recently, they were quite quick to update. Now, they may be the slowest out of any, during any period I can recall. Scoring sites based on old, old data is really weak. And no, I am not just talking about the 3 year old hard coded serps that never ever change, which we KNOW is laziness.

We had a site that we changed over to a new domain but didn't bother with a 301 as we all know what happens there...Anyhow, there has not been ONE single link pointing there for 5 months and it is still scoring, and this term is quite competetive. The point here, is they do not seem to care about NOW anymore. It's puzzling and a bit disturbing as many here were hoping for a bit more out of Y!.

Oh, and lets not get into a y sucks/y is great debate, or even worse a "my site is..." talk (the reason I brought the one site up was to illustrate how I am 100% certain the data being used is not near current). I am simply curious what everyone thinks is the reasoning behind this slowdown.