Update?

Ya I see it too... I usually do not keep track of Yahoo because it is so spammy but I have an old domain now ranking at #2 for a highly competitive keyword. They must really like old domains with keywords in the url as this can be the only reason, that I can see anyways, that this domain would rank for that super competitive term as I have not promoted this old domain for years.

I think something changed too. It seems that Yahoo has a much stronger Holiday Gift Buying algo than Bing and Google. I suspect we're seeing less emphasis on purchasing versus information.

I am being told this might be related to Yahoo dropping paid inclusion?

This is directly related to paid inclusion being dropped. As of Jan. 6 paid inclusion in no longer a factor. I am curious what changes folks are seeing as a result of paid inclusion being dropped. From both those who were using paid inclusion and those who were not. Perhaps we will see a reversal in favor of those who were not using it in the first place.

My company had been suing paid inclusion since before I was here, over 4 years ago. I was very curious to see what would happen when this change happened. I'm still analyzing, but I am seeing some drop in rankings for my 11 year old site which dominates Google rankings in my vertical. In the past Yahoo rankings were pretty good and pretty stable.

My number 1 keyword went from a double listing in spots 1 and 2 to spots 3 and 4. Overtaken by wikipedia and a spammy competitor.

On average I'm seeing aroudn 2-4 spots dropped for major keywords. Hope this levels off and I can regain some position! Guess it's time to take a look at major Yahoo ranking factors again!

Isn't anybody even watching Yahoo anymore?

better to spend the time watching Bing, i would have thought.

Vimes.

Both Bing and Yahoo lost ground to G this past month. Pretty amazing considering how much MS is spending to market Bing.

We stopped analyzing Y results as well. Figure it was going to be Bing results soon.

Some say Yahoo is a good alternative ranking. if your site ranks well in both Google and Yahoo, changes at Google aren't likely to drop your site too much.

For me it was great. I did some analysis just before the update, and then again today.

The number of time my site was in the first three results
Before 78
After 99

The number of time my site was in the 4th to 10th spot
before 125
after 179

For the past 10 days, I see 30% increase in traffic for one site. This is solely due to Yahoo. Also, I notice that Yahoo indexes this site more heavily and more frequent than Google now. With another site -- no changes...

Yahoo tweaked something today around 1:30 until 3:00 Eastern time. We had a huge spike in traffic. Anyone else see this?

I think we're seeing a slow and painful death of Y! Search. The last Weather Report we had was back in early September. It's hard to believe that nothing's been tweaked since that time.

Yahoo Japan announced its index update just today.
[searchblog.yahoo.co.jp...]

It's possible Y! U.S. has also rolled out its index update but not mentioned it.

Seeing more US movement....