BLIP Going through my Backlinks on Yahoo Site Explorer I suddenly realized that it displays all backlinks regardless. There were open links, links with nofollow attribute in a tag as well as links from pages with meta robots nofollow. This doesn’t mean Yahoo ignores nofollow as it may still exclude it from their link popularity [...]
BLIP Stranegely, but Yahoo pays more attention to on-site factors than others. This a bit old-fashioned tactic possibly extends to meta tags as well. tags: blip Bookmark to:
BLIP This observation is derived from MSN ranking higher for a particular keyword pages and sites that have keywords in link text and link title of external links as opposed to sites and pages these links are pointing to. This seems to be a reverse logic i. e. link text becomes a kind of a [...]
BLIP Yahoo seems to be particularly keen on having and most likely using in-house data on relevancy of their SEPR by tracking user clicks. It is undeniable that they get this data, the question is how exactly they use it? My take is that this data can not be used in an obvious way – [...]
BLIP It is a rather widespread rumour that inside the Yahoo corporate network the Yahoo searchpage is delivered with a link urging Yahoo employees to report inappropriate search results to the relevant department. Although to my knowledge it is the only evidence of handcrafting so fat I am inclined to believe it. More so considering [...]
BLIP According to this document found inside their own site Microsoft Live offers a kind of job which descriptiod deserves to be quoted in full: Hand crafted results When all else fails, and the ranking algorithms do not pass the confidence threshold, we fall back to delivering handcrafted results. Working on a team of approximately [...]
BLIP MSN more than the other two would rank higher for a particular keyword even smaller sites with domains like www.keyword.com or www.something-keyword.com I’am not sure if this is simply due to the fact that it is a really young project or due to simplified algorithms… but so far it stays as a fact. tags: [...]
BLIP MSN came out the last and if Google could be considered an elder, Yahoo as an unstable teenager that has a lot of stored knowledge but rarely reads it (see Yahoo used to be a Directory and Yahoo is based on Inktomi Slurp Blips), MSN is a baby with little or no experience. It [...]
BLIP Yahoo started as the largest human-edited directory on freaking earth and we should not forget that the ailing DMOZ used to be a popular reaction to an almost total monopoly Yahoo used to have in this market. Gradually with volume increase this became less and less viable as a business model and Yahoo abandoned [...]
BLIP Remember there was a Search engine called Inktomi and it even had its own spider named Slurp for whatever stupid reason? Remember when Yahoo in fight for its independence from Google results bought Inktomi and Inktomi Slurp suddenly became Yahoo Slurp? To remind you here is a snapshot of an Inktomi.com page taken from [...]
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