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Thrusday April 17, 2008
Yahoo Slurp 3.0
Over the past few weeks, Yahoo has been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler "Yahoo! Slurp 3.0" with some infrastructure updates, which has led to variance in yahoo crawl behavior. According sources of yahoo "With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun." As a result of phase rolled out , over the next several weeks, we may see the following changes
- The crawlers will start crawling from a different and much smaller set of IP addresses
- If you're using IP-based recognition for yahoo crawlers, you might see a drop in crawl/coverage from Yahoo!
- The crawlers will also publish a new user-agent, 'Yahoo! Slurp/3.0.'
- Existing robots.txt instructions for 'Slurp' or 'Yahoo! Slurp' will work, however, directives specific to 'Slurp/2.0,' will not be recognized by the new crawler.
These above stated changes will affect the main Yahoo! Web Search crawlers.
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Thrusday April 10, 2008
Major Google Algorithm Update Expected
Webmasters all over have noticed variations in google search engine results. Several of them have noticed reshuffling and possible tweaking on Google data centers during the last two weeks or so. Some Websites which were ranking in 1st page on 5th and 6th positions have been dropped to second page. some people have noticed variation in rankngs of various data centers for the same keywords.
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