yahoo launches new search crawler

[bruno]

Hi

I am quoting from yahoo blog

"We launched a new Yahoo! Search Crawler, Yahoo! Slurp earlier this week. In addition to crawling the Internet faster, our new crawler is more efficient at visiting websites. As a result, site owners will notice as much as a 25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler."

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[invincible]

That is a good way to start for yahoo, hope it doesn't do yahoo dance, though I don't see many requests from Yahoo slurp in my server logs. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[gibson]

Hi

I did notice that the results have been getting updated much more frequently now after the launch. I like it -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[alexis]

yes, same here, i have seen a postitive change in my SERP in yahoo, hopefully it somewhat gets closer to google SERPs.

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[Freebie]

recently, hits from slurp is low on some of my sites.

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[xena]

Good riddance to old Slurp. A lot of robots.txt files may get lonely now without being visited three times for every real page indexed.
Hopefully the new bot will make Yahoo at least mildly competitive. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[symonds]

A real improvement or PR move?
I guess time will tell.
I haven't seen any movement in my market yet.

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[cafu1]

[quote=bruno]As a result, site owners will notice as much as a 25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler."

[quote]

I guess that I was not the only to complain that Yahoo was keeping on crawling sites like crazy and totally blind of any relevance!

Good that shareholders (maybe) start putting pressure on all these flakes unable to build a relevant algorithm and wasting both their time, ours, their money and our bandwidth. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[nick]

I hope they use 10 times as much bandwidth as they have. I hardly think "crawling too much" has been a problem for .0001% of the sites out there. Yahoo needs to crawl much harder and efficiently than they have. Years after they launched their search engine, I don't know of any 1000 page site that is fully indexed correctly. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[bestguy]

Hello

Google also did the same thing three months ago. yahoo is only following suit.

Bye
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