Yahoo UK changes serps

[nicebloke]

Everyone else seeing the new look Yahoo UK serps?

[lazerzubb]

Ye, not that big of a change though, no serp changes.

[angiolo]

I see different results, compared to last month, as usual.
It seems that every month ranking changes a little bit: is it related to click popularity or is it random?

[nicebloke]

Looks a lot better than the cack they had before.

[mat]

Haven't looked at UK for a while, so I don't know what the 'old' results were, but what I'm seeing is the directory results served up by default - is that what you're referring to?

If you're saying that this is better than the Google/directory mix by default, then boy do I disagree.

Mat

[nicebloke]

Nope I'm saying it's a lot more usable than it was before.

[mat]

OK, but what is, exactly - is the change you're commenting on a switch from Google-powered by default back to the old directory by default, or something else?
And, if yes, what do you find to be more useable?

Mat

[nicebloke]

Yahoo UK has never been Google powered apart from the backfill.

The old SERPS were basically a list of categories, with sites inbetween category headings. This gave a very cluttered look. Current results are much cleaner.

[mat]

Yahoo UK has never been Google powered apart from the backfill.

Hey, am I on the case or what? Didn't know that. Thanks.

[glengara]

You're right, much cleaner; pages resemble the default G ones on the .com site

[4eyes]

hmmmm...

Bet it doesn't stop there.

Reckon this is the forerunner to a yahoo.com type SERP.