New Yahoo .au and .nz coming

Next few weeks

[anallawalla]

[biz.yahoo.com...] (being discussed in Yahoo forum)

I am reliably informed that our version will be "optimised" for our region and made available over the next several weeks.

Would be interesting to see what "optimised" means.

[Jaze]

I was just looking at ANZWERS - being powered by Yahoo and all - isn't this the same thing? Or are they going to combine it into one engine and then focus some marketing on it?

Will be interesting to see what happens...

[Woz]

Anzwers are still showing Google results that I can see so I assume the contract with G is still running. Being and Ozemail site managed by Yahoo, it will be interestingn to see whether things remains as is or whether they move over to the New Yahoo engine. Time will tell.

Onya
Woz

[Woz]

I forgot to mention that Anzwers is showing Overture ads, so maybe that is an indicator of things to come.

Onya
Woz

[Woz]

According to this article [news.com.com], Yahoo AP "has dumped Google's algorithmic search technology for its Australian and New Zealand portals in favor of an in-house search engine, Yahoo Search Technologies."

Testing the G.au and Y.au SERPs it look as if the switch may have been made.

Onya
Woz