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I am a heavy user of the Yahoo! SiteExplorer tool. So when I headed over there this morning to check out backlinks I was surprised to see a new design being trialled across Yahoo! Search, excluding image, video search etc. Be prepared; it’s rather ‘different’.

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Most SEOs and SEMs have come to rely on Yahoo’s linkdomain: operator to find out who links to there website considering Google’s link: operator sucks. But there’s a problem with Yahoo now. I tried a simple linkdomain: command for an AIM smileys site (URL: http://www.aim-smileys.net) and got links from various sites. But … among the [...]

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Yahoo anounced that they are updating their search index again. Tim Mayer says that the update will be completed today. On first looks this update is weird. Some are seeing the top 10 populated with only Yahoo directory-listed sites, others are watching as their sites vanish. Sounds pretty typical stuff to me. I don’t get [...]

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Yahoo today announced taht they have acquired Del.icio.us, the extremely popular communal bookmarking service. Posting on the Yahoo Search Blog, Jeremy Zawodny comments: I’d like to change the non-committal answer I gave to this: “Yes! And as of today, del.icio.us is part of the Yahoo! family.” As Joshua writes, the del.icio.us team will soon be [...]

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Tim Mayer posts on the Yahoo! Search Blog that they have launched another update only a couple of weeks after their last update. It’s a bit early to make comment on the update but it is fantastic that Yahoo! are taking this approach and actively engaging the webmaster community, letting them know what is happening. [...]

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