Yahoo problems update WebProWorld Forum :: Did Yahoo Fix 301 Bug Yet?
WebProWorld :: Did Yahoo Fix 301 Bug Yet?: "Yup. As HardCoded said, 'Crap is crap'. And these are all examples that Yahoo's results are likely to be crap on any given search.There seem to be a couple of problems at work here.
One is that Yahoo seems to have thrown together a number of old indexes in order to claim to have something approaching the number of files that Google has in its index.
Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn't seem capable of spidering fast enough to fix the outdated entries that they threw into their index.
And even when they do spider a site, their 301 bug causes bizarre entries. As an example, check the Yahoo entries for 'Queen City Cruise' [without quotation marks]. There are two entries for my site in that search. Both #4 and #6 list a urls that were replaced and redirected months ago. Both also show preview text that's at least a year old even though Yahoo has spidered the new page and has it in its index.
Although I'm not getting it on today's search, I've seen them provide an even more bizarre result. They'll occasionally show the new page name and sample text from the new page but associate that page with a two-year old url.
And that is crap. A big TV ad budget and a loyal user base will help them for only so long. Eventually their users may begin to notice that they're getting bad results too often and turn elsewhere. At the very least, associated companies should be questioning whether a buggy Yahoo is a wise choice as an SE partner."
posted by Jen @ 8:02 AM
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