Overture Phrase and Broad Matching Tools

When will MSN and Yahoo start using them?

[TomWaits]

I love the new phrase and broad matching click-boxes. We're having a good experience with them on Altavista and AlltheWeb, but owned by Overture of course.

My question is, am I mistaken that Yahoo and MSN are not currently using these new tools that Overture has offered? In other words, if I'm bidding on "widgets", and I click the phrase box because I want to show up for any widget searches, I go over to Altavista and I can type "widgets dipsydoo", and it's likely that the only search results is ours.

If I go over to Yahoo, though, Yahoo will tell me that there are no pages under that phrase.

Any thoughts or information on when or if Yahoo and/or MSN will start using what Overture has set up?

[Shak]

lots of changes coming, both at Yahoo and MSN

just a waiting game as far as i am concerned.

Shak

[TomWaits]

I'd still like to know other opinions, even if it's a waiting game as far as you're concerned.

[johnnydequino]

Shak - like what?

[TomWaits]

On a related note, how the heck does one click the broad and phrase checkboxes for over 1,000 terms without doing them 1 at a time?

I recognize the answer is probably, "you can't", but I'll throw it out there anyway.

[eWhisper]

You can do up to 200 at a time. Under manage listings, goto 200 views per page. In the left corner of the blue outline box is a check which will autocheck every term on the page. Then click on match type options, look for the same check at the top of the page under match option you want, and that will auto check all those 200 terms. You'll have to do it 5 times for 200 terms, but it doesn't take that long overall.

[TomWaits]

OMG, thank you very much. I completely missed that, I'm glad I asked.