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Y! Uk & Ireland "only" filtering...

         

glengara

4:14 pm on Mar 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Any hints of a change from the present filtering by domain?

energylevel

1:09 am on Mar 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'd like to know exacly the same .... I'm sure something must be in the pipeline for smarter filtering of UK sites, I have a few clients who suffer on Yahoo beause of this.

glengara

11:44 am on Mar 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Seeing Y! results now, and thankfully "only pages...." seem not to be TLD dependent.....

makemetop

11:54 am on Mar 13, 2004 (gmt 0)



The TLD can help (or hinder) - a lot!

The filter uses something like the old INK geo-targeting algo which attempts to define the market at which the page is aimed. This is also used on worldwide searches which will sometimes give the effect of UK Yahoo worldwide page 1 SERPs and filtered SERPs being identical on some searches - though both will be different from the .com results. However, if you look at a phrase usually targeted at the US on .co.uk you will see the filtered results can be very different.

[edited by: makemetop at 11:58 am (utc) on Mar. 13, 2004]

glengara

11:58 am on Mar 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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No doubt, MMT, but at least now it's not ONLY .uk/.ie pages returned.