05 September 2002

Changes afoot at Yahoo

Yahoo and Google seem to be working on something today. Firstly the google results are sometimes unavailable, ie when you search for something that Yahoo's directory doesn't have, you get the message 'no sites match......' etc.

When you do a search that has BOTH directory and Google matches, you get a hybrid search result that looks more like something MSN or Looksmart shows has where directory and index results appear on the page, with no particular heirarchy other that KW density.

Reinforces the need for optimisation to both directories and spiders - things change fast in this marketplace........

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