Yahoo groups

[zen_virgil]

Hi there! Does search engines such as Yahoo and Google recognize yahoo groups and list them in their results page?

[Mohamed_E]

Very interesting!

Until I checked today I was sure that Google did not index Yahoo Groups, because they needed cookies. However I just did a search on site:groups.yahoo.com groupname and got a large number of matches.

Note: Some groups have "Archives for members only" and I assume that Google cannot spider them.

[zen_virgil]

I did a search on a topic using yahoo and I did saw a certain yahoo group in one of the results. I found out that the keyword which is in the yahoo group description may be recognizable. So I tried putting a keyword in my group's description and then typed that keyword in the yahoo search box. But I did not see my group in the results page after the engine search.