Yahoo! Maps Detours for "MacArthur Maze" Mess Just a quick pointer to some nice work done by our colleagues on the Yahoo! Maps team. The recent collapse of a section of I-580 onto I-80 in Oakland, CA (affectionately known as the MacArthur Maze),

310 views read more 2007-05-03 13:59:24

Yahoo! Search Support for X-Robots-Tag Directive to Simplify Webmaster's Control and Weather Update Today we're announcing support for tags that give webmasters even more flexibility over which pages and documents are crawled and indexed by Yahoo! Search. Specifically, we're extending our support of

310 views read more 2007-12-05 12:44:51

Party like a SearchMonkey in Paris and London We're inviting our developer friends overseas to hang with the SearchMonkey team - meet the experts, enjoy some drinks and food and share in ideas for using SearchMonkey. The events are occuring in p

310 views read more 2008-06-20 18:30:04

A Search Box that Fits Since launching Yahoo! Search Builder back in August we’ve received a lot of great feedback and have been working to address the issues nearest and dearest to our users. We’ve noticed a lot of talk

308 views read more 2007-02-07 11:03:00

Keeping Ad Tracking and Dead URLs out of Yahoo! Search We’re often asked how Yahoo! Search determines which pages get indexed and which pages are left un-crawled. First and foremost, we honor the industry-standard robots.txt file format, which gives Web

307 views read more 2007-02-26 17:27:00

BOSS Reaches a Milestone We launched Yahoo! Search BOSS this past July and we just reached a significant milestone - the BOSS API is currently serving more than 10 million queries per day. 10 million in and of itself isn't

306 views read more 2008-12-08 10:00:00

It's About the Customers A few months back, I shared some anecdotes from a customer field day that the Yahoo! Search team participated in. "A Day in Their Shoes" is what we called it. Our customers are the centerpiece of our

305 views read more 2008-02-19 11:30:00

Yahoo! Chats with Semantic Web Expert, Ben Adida Yahoo!'s plans to "open up" really started circulating at the beginning of this year. Not long after, Yahoo! Search announced its plans to support semantic mark-ups, specifically our crawler support f

300 views read more 2008-06-24 11:30:00

Who’s in your knowledge network? You’ve got a burning question and you know someone out there has got the answer. We’ve all been in this situation and for over 90 million people worldwide, spanning 20 countries, and 9 languages, Y

295 views read more 2007-03-08 10:48:00

Take Me Out to the Ballgame... Unless you're a huge sports fanatic, you may find it hard to keep up with all the new players in professional sports. I used to be pretty good at it back when I collected baseball cards, or when I wa

294 views read more 2007-08-09 11:28:00