Yahoo's Latest News

Yahoo just added search suggest 
"It works like this: When you do a search on Yahoo!, you'll automatically be given suggestions based on what you have typed - as you're typing.

So, not only does this limit the number of words you need to type into a query, it may also present similar queries to shorten your searching time and get to what you're looking for quicker." 
7/17/07 

Panama likely to boost Yahoo Search revenue more than 20 percent 
"The gains may boost Yahoo’s revenue growth from searches to more than 20 percent in the second half of this year, instead of his previous estimate of 15 percent."
3/27/07 

Panama Puts Yahoo Back in the Race "If the Web's search engine industry is the race track, Yahoo has just taken a timely pit stop to try and win back ground lost against the new leader, Google."
2/27/07 

Yahoo's top searches of 2006"Yahoo! released the 6th annual Top Searches of the Year, which shows what the world was searching for in 2006 across news, sports and entertainment."
12/5/06

Yahoo's search growth beats Google "Yahoo's share of search traffic has grown faster than Google's in the last year, according to new data from Nielsen//Netratings. 

Nielsen's October U.S. search share rankings show Yahoo with 1.46B searches, up 30% from last year and representing 23.9% of all U.S. searches. Google was used for 3.02B searches, up 23% from last year. Google is responsible for 49.6% of all Internet searches. 

MSN/Windows Live Search fell 8% year-over-year. IAC InterActive Corp.'s Ask.com saw search traffic jump 25%, although the search engine only accounts for 2.8% of the market."
11/21/06

Yahoo's search crawler now upports wildcards in robots.txt"You can now use '*' in robots directives for Yahoo! Slurp to wildcard match a sequence of characters in your URL. You can use this symbol in any part of the URL string you provide in the robots directive."
11/7/06 

Yahoo to join MSN and Google in Supporting NOODP Tag Yahoo will finally support the NOODP tag, at least according to Tim Mayer who announced this after being questioned about it by Barry Schwartz on The Pulse last night. This following MSN and Google's support of the tag earlier this year. What is the NOODP tag anyway? It is a meta tag that allows a web site owner to opt out from having the search engines display the Open Directory information in the organic SERPs. Many of us have been waiting for Yahoo to follow suit because there are times that the Open Directory information will be displayed for a site as opposed to the site's title tag and either snippet of content or meta description tag for the actual description.
10/12/06 

Yahoo Launches 'Social Search' in Britain "Yahoo! will launch a service today that allows users to ask other people's advice, when looking for anything from a good hotel or bar to an apple pie recipe, rather than rely solely upon electronically generated search results."
9/5/06 

Yahoo Search becomes the second most used search engine in China "Yahoo! Search's market share has become the runner-up in China. According to the Research Report of Searching Engine Market in China, issued by the CCW Research, it has surpassed Google and now follows after Baidu."
8/29/06

Yahoo updates Site Explorer "We're now organized around sites you'd like to track. You can explore these, and add feeds to each site. Once you authenticate your site, you can see much more information about your URLs as you explore your site, and monitor feeds you've submitted."
8/15/06

Yahoo announces Yahoo! Search Builder"With Yahoo! Search Builder you can create a custom Web search engine by selecting a set of trusted sites to search across or you can tune the search algorithm to the topic of your choice. Beyond Web search, Search Builder includes Site search and News search. 

Then generate the code you'll need to add your search engine to your site. You also have control over the look and feel of the search box and search results page."
8/08/06 

The new Yahoo! Search Crawler (Slurp)"We launched a new Yahoo! Search Crawler, Yahoo! Slurp earlier this week. In addition to crawling the Internet faster, our new crawler is more efficient at visiting websites. As a result, site owners will notice as much as a 25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler. [...] 
With this change of behavior in the crawler, you may see some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index and some changes in ranking as well."
8/1/06 

Yahoo! Expands Publisher's Network Help Center 
Site owners that make use of the Yahoo Publisher's Network will be pleased to note some new additions to the YPN control panel. With much of the new content focused on guiding YPN partners through the ins and outs of the network via a brand new help center, there's been some speculation over whether this might signal an end to the beta stage of the Yahoo Publisher's Network.
6/22/06

Yahoo! Boosts Presence in South Korea 
Yahoo has expanded its interests in South Korea, buying a strategic stake in e-commerce provider Gmarket. The US internet search and media firm has paid 57bn won ($60m) to buy a 10% holding in the Seoul-based business. 
6/6/06

Yahoo! and eBay Deal Could Mean Good Things for Small Business 
Blogs are buzzing today with the news that Yahoo! and eBay will begin sharing resources with each other on things like payment systems, search and advertising. The duo will also begin exploring click-to-call and/or pay-per-call technology as well as a co-branded toolbar. The good news is that the pairing may spell good news for small business owners, especially ones that heavily depend on eBay and Yahoo! stores for their online income.
5/26/06

Yahoo! Exec Balks at Idea of MSN Pairing 
An article over at Silcon.com sheds some light on Yahoo!'s opinion of the recent speculation over a possible Microsoft/Yahoo! search pairing. The article features several quotes from Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel that make it clear that we won't be searching at Microhoo! or Yasoft search sites anytime soon.
5/13/06

Yahoo Has Announced Another Index Update
"We rolled out an index update last night. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index." 
4/25/06

Yahoo Announces a Ranking Algorithm Update 
"We will be making changes to the ranking of our index tonight. I would expect that this update will be mild and quick compared to recent ones but will impact the ranking of some sites."
4/24/06

Yahoo! Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps 
Yahoo! announced yesterday on their corporate blog that they had added satellite imagery to their mapping service. The new feature is also available through Yahoo!'s API and the Yahoo! Developer Network so that mashup creators can being hacking together Yahoo! powered features. (skip to "Yahoo! Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps" by Jennifer Laycock) 
4/13/06

Yahoo! tests new search engine ad model 
"Yahoo! has released a test version of its new search monetization in Scandinavia and will expand the rollout to the U. K. in July. [...] Code named 'Project Panama,' Yahoo’s new model will be similar to that of Google, which ranks search-engine ads by both the amount advertisers pay for keywords and the relevance of the ad." 
4/10/06

Yahoo Used in Spyware Click Fraud Scheme 
The problem of click-fraud is an ever-present danger in pay per click advertising, one that troubles Google as well. The problem is not going to go away. In fact, it is likely to get worse. (skip to "Yahoo Used in Spyware Click Fraud Scheme" by Jim Hedger)
4/6/06

Yahoo! outnumbers Google 
"Despite Google's reputation, Yahoo! ranks as top search engine and Yahoo Mail grabs the top telecom/internet services site spot week ending March 19."
4/3/06

Yahoo! Search index update 
"We completed an index update over the weekend. As a result, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index. You might also be seeing a temporary spike in crawler activity. As these things go, all this should stabilize in the near future." 
4/3/06

Yahoo Offers Up Free Training to New Orleans Businesses 
Next month, the team at Yahoo! is going to be heading to the big easy to share free tips and advice with small business owners that are interested in search marketing. The "Back in Business" event will be held at the InterContinental Hotel on Friday, April 9th from 9am to 5pm. The event is free to attend and open to small business owners, web developers and marketers. Yahoo will be sending a team to the event to help teach attendees about web development, e-commerce and search advertising. Interested small business owners can register online. 
3/28/06

Some Insight on the Yahoo Publishers Network 
If you've been thinking about checking out the Yahoo Publisher's Network (YPN), Yahoo!'s alternative to AdSense, but still have some questions about exactly how things work, you aren't alone. That's where Rae Hoffman comes in. Rae (known in the forums as Sugarrae) has put together an excellent set of Q&A with Josh Siegel, Sr. Mgr Business Operations, Yahoo! Publisher Network Online. The piece covers issues like ad targeting, the publisher's interface and even ways to better optimize the performance of ads. It's a good read for anyone looking to learn more about YPN. 
3/23/06

Yahoo! releases local news 
The new service allows you to see the news for your area.
3/21/06 

Yahoo! Research Expands Globally with Centers in Spain and Chile; Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Joins Yahoo To Lead Research Efforts in Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile
(January 23,2006) Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has expanded its research operations into Europe and Latin America with the opening of new facilities in Spain and Chile. Renowned Web retrieval and mining expert Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates will lead both centers in their focus on topics related to Web search and information extraction. He will be mainly based in Barcelona and report directly to Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research. Read the full article »

Mind set: Intent-driven Search
A demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources)