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Search engines can be divided to author-controlled, editor-controlled and user-controlled. Google and AltaVista belong to the first group as they create their rankings based on the keywords found on indexed websites. Second group represents Yahoo! [...]

For a long time webmasters and SEO specialists tried to fight with canonical issues on websites by using 301 redirects, different website architecture etc. Now Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft worked together and developed a canonical tag that helps get rid of the canonical issue once and for all. Ask have also implemented that tag into [...]

The year 2008 is over now and the new year is upon us. The year 2009 is going to bring many new and exciting features to search engine industry. Everyone is thinking if, finally, year 2009 is going to be the mobile devices year, if the mobile device advertising and search engine optimization alike will [...]

Yahoo! published a list of most popular user searches of the year 2008. It represents most searcher terms in Yahoo! search engine and its partners. Here it is:

Britney Spears
WWE
Barack Obama
Miley Cyrus
RuneScape
Jessica Alba
Naruto
Lindsay Lohan
Angelina Jolie
American Idol

You can also see more detailed additional lists categorized at Yahoo! Buzz website.
It is much different than Google’s zeitgeist list for [...]

Jerry Yang has quit Yahoo! as Chief Yahoo and CEO. Jerry Yang have been the CEO of Yahoo! since June 2007. After Google-Yahoo! ad deal was broken, many people have expected that Jerry Yang will be held responsible for that. Yahoo! have lost lots of money, time, technology benefits and reputation because of that [...]

Yahoo! have recently launched a new service by Yahoo! Shopping, called Yahoo! Deals.
Yahoo! Deals (http://deals.yahoo.com/) is a collection of discounts, promotional offers and other “hot offers” for various products across online and offline stores updated daily to bring the cheapest products to the users.
Our new Yahoo! Deals site will save you both time and money [...]

From time to time spammers use well known trademarks and brand names to fool people to reveal their personal data such as credit card numbers etc. Yahoo! have been a victim of one such spam attack. The unknown group have send emails with information about Yahoo! lottery winners list and claiming that the person have [...]

Have you ever wandered how will people use search engines to find things on Internet in 10 or 20 years from now on? Would you like to know how will search engine of 22nd century look like and through which criteria will it index information? let’s use some imagination and see what might happen in [...]

Yahoo! have announced the start of their new old IndexTools analytics software currently in beta version.
Yahoo! Web Analytics is a real-time analytics software with many features:

Custom reports
Real-time analysis
Compare search engine PPC prices (Yahoo!. Google and MSN)
Comparative reports
and more…

Yahoo! Web Analytics helps you identify the ads, campaigns, keywords and referrals that contribute the most to your [...]

Some time ago Yahoo! have created a special attribute called “NOYDIR” (NO Yahoo! DIRectory) to exclude fetching titles and descriptions of a website that is listed in the Yahoo! Directory to give more control to webmasters.
If your site is listed in that directory you may see that Yahoo! may be sometimes presenting the meta data [...]