mfishy - 2:46 pm on Mar 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

[quote] I think monthly updates are about the least frequent you can do - MSN seems to do biweekly and Google may be a little more frequently than that. Why the heck would they give up on a major indicator of search engine usefulness and cede it to the other two?[quote]

True.

If you nailed one of the hard coded serps you have been sitting there for 2.5+ years now. Also, even the non-hand-picked pages we have/see in there are locked in for months upon months. But, I would prefer them to actually be a decent engine, and having fell so far behind is not good.

But seriously, why crawl the $#%$ out of sites so often and never, ever update the scoring with the data you are seemingly gathering? Everyone suffers here. Both Yahoo, their shareholders and the webmasters.

STOP CRAWLING IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO USE THE DATA. Finding/indexing sites does not really impress anyone. How about actually scoring them? If I change the topic of a site, why should it score for its original topic/terms for 5 months after the change? Something really funky is going on over there.

Looks like no one can name a search engine slower to update in the history of the web so far...