Yahoo! Clues is a new beta service that gives you a unique “behind the scenes” look into popular trends across the millions of people who use Yahoo! to search each day. With Yahoo! Clues, you can discover and compare trending information for search terms of interest to you, or explore popular trending search terms on Yahoo! You can see search volume charts, demographic graphs, maps, or even relate

Today, we are launching an all-new Yahoo! Search experience that makes search more personally relevant. We tested the changes in August with a percentage of users, and now the new page is available to everyone. The new page is designed to help you easily find and explore the things that matter most to you. The Yahoo! Search team is delighted to demonstrate our commitment to innovate in search tech

We'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but expect the update will be completed soon. Please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board to share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users. Sharad Verma Yahoo! Search

A look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo! Over the past few weeks, we've been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates, which recently caused a variance in our crawl behavior. With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun. The new Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 recognizes the same user-agent and all robots.txt directives fo

A look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo! A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards. The Data Web in Action While there has been remarkable progress made toward understanding

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A look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo! Whether you're planning a vacation to Italy and want a preview of some of the sights in Rome like Piazza di Spagna or The Vatican, doing a horticultural homework assignment on heirloom tomatoes, or perhaps seeing what food at the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley, California looks like, Yahoo! Image Search is the starting point for

A look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo! We recently returned from our annual rendezvous at SES New York and, like always, learned a lot from our webmasters. The 'Robots.txt Summit' generated some healthy discussions and support for adding a tag to parts of a page that do not relate to the main content, such as navigation, menus repeated across the entire site, boilerplate text,

Yahoo! Site Explorer: Authenticate your site via a META tag and more goodies We spend a lot of time listening to our users, and I am happy to say we�ve gotten better at it. We�ve been using feedback forms and message boards, and finally at the Chicago SES last December, we launched our new Site Explorer Suggestion Board. This is a new user based ranking feedback tool, which was first introduce