Blog Interview with John Glick talks about meta tags, links etc..

[Janet]

Really useful article I came across today.

Lots of ranking implications here...some will surprise you!
[e-marketing-news.co.uk...]

[helenp]

very interesting indeed,

didn´t know that the best of AV was their revelancy (their ranking system) and the best of ATW was the fast indexing.
Funny in AV I was in the best position compared other SE.

But let's take an example of say, a travel company. The Yahoo! Slurp crawler typically is going to come around and visit a site every three to four weeks.

Why does yahoo slurp spiders my robots.txt 2 or three times/day?

Third, read that yahoo don´t want several similar results if searching for exampel to buy an book.

just to check, I wrote in Yahoo search: Hotel in (famous city) and on top of search results, yahoo-travel with name, prices and availibility link for three hotels.
choosed one of these and now searched for the name of that hotel, the first page for results were only sites doing reservations in that hotel, isn´t that affiliate sites?

[edited by: helenp at 2:13 pm (utc) on April 17, 2004]

[blaze]

Odd that there isn't more discussion about this. This has to be the must detailed and authoritative description of what yahoo is doing.

If anyone knows a better post on Yahoo's new search engine I'd love to see it.

[Marcia]

Thoroughly enjoyable read. The explanation about keyword meta tags is particularly interesting.

[blaze]

The best thing of course is that it's coming straight from the horses mouth - not a so called expert intermediate.

Other things I found fascinating-

- the bit about 'de aliasing' as well confirmed something I thought I had noticed about Yahoo's search engine versus Googles.

- personalization as the future of Yahoo search .. how you can be number 1 for one person but not for another ..

- the fact that they index beyond the 60 characters .. nice to see that in black and white

- they're not crawling flash right now

- ‘laptop computers’ will count for ‘laptop computers’ and not ‘laptop’ or ‘computers’ separately. So doing it like that means that you're not going to be penalised for keyword spamming on the word ‘computers’.

- ODP seems just as important as Yahoo directory for Yahoo - "The way that I would classify it is, that our relationship with the Yahoo! directory is very similar to that which we have with Open Directory. We also have a relationship with Open Directory Project.

- and a lot more.

Really amazing stuff. Very nice to finally read something by the actual people who run these things.

If anyone knows where else I can find these sorts of articles / web pages, please sticky me!

[steveb]

Interesting how the de-aliasing that he seems to be proud of could well be the thing at the root of one of Yahoo's initial major problems.

[blaze]

Which problem is that?

[steveb]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[pleeker]

Wow. I just found this and read it and came here to see if anyone else had seen it ... guess I'm a couple days behind, but this is definitely one worth bumping. It's a must-read.

Blaze -- haven't seen anything better myself. You're right.