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Yahoo Rolls Out New Search Algorithm - Is This Why They Refused the $45bn MS Offer?

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Bompa

Yahoo refers to their own reports of changes as a “weather report”. Sometimes when Yahoo announces a weather report, new webmasters ask: “what does the weather have to do with the SERPs?” LOL

March 03, 2008
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

We’re in the process of rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. To share your thoughts on this with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board.

Update: With this weather update, you might also experience spikes or drops in crawl traffic for the next week or two.

Sharad Verma
Yahoo! Search

Bompa

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