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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

We’re rolling out a web index update over the next few days. During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.
To share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board.
Dan Rampton
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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

See More SearchMonkey in Your Search Results

Want a little more SearchMonkey in your Yahoo! search results? Starting today, more enhanced results for product, local, entertainment, reference, social, and tech sites will appear automatically in your results, putting more information and answers right at your fingertips.
First, we’d like to thank everyone who deployed microformats, RDFa, and feeds in response to our blog [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Video Search: Enjoy Larger In-line Play and Embedded Related Videos

We know that users want instant gratification when searching for videos – you want to be able to watch the videos as soon as you find it. So today, we’re introducing a larger inline video play feature that shows the videos directly on the video search results page.
Some videos on the results page will display [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Testing a New Yahoo! Search Experience

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We know that search has been a hot topic over the past few weeks, so we wanted to share with you what the Yahoo! Search team has been focusing on lately. Today, we are announcing a new search page design that makes search more personally relevant and helps people explore the things [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Congratulations, Vik Singh – 2009 Young Innovators Under 35

We’d like to congratulate Vik Singh, an architect at Yahoo!, who has just been picked as one of the MIT’s  Technology Review 35 Young Innovators Under 35 of 2009 for his contributions to Yahoo! Search BOSS.  Since its launch, thousands of developers have issued millions of queries through Yahoo! Search BOSS to power some great, [...]

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