Archives: 2008April

We’re in the process of rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. To share your thoughts on this with other Yahoo! Search users, please […]

One goal of Yahoo! Research is to develop leading-edge algorithms and technology that will power the next generation of search. In keeping with that commitment and to expand its global research capabilities, Yahoo! is opening a new Research Lab in Haifa, Israel.
The lab will be focused on research and development in the areas of Web […]

We’re in the process of rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. To share your thoughts on this with other Yahoo! Search users, please […]

Today, Yahoo!, along with Google and Microsoft, is announcing Cross-host submission for Sitemaps, which will make it easier for webmasters to manage their Sitemap submissions to the major search engines. With this announcement, webmasters can now submit Sitemaps that correspond to several differently-hosted websites using a single mechanism.
For background, a Sitemap file contains […]

There’s been a lot of noise and violent thrashing over the last couple days regarding a flaw that was originally believed to be a flaw in Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Server), but has since been pointed out as simply a well thought out SQL Injection attack.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with SQL Injection attacks, […]

Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points especially that there is a lot of […]

This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications. Rather than an academic exercise, it’s driven by necessity; […]

Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points especially that there is a lot of […]

Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points especially that there is a lot of […]

There’s been a lot of noise and violent thrashing over the last couple days regarding a flaw that was originally believed to be a flaw in Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Server), but has since been pointed out as simply a well thought out SQL Injection attack.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with SQL Injection attacks, […]