Tag Archives: Search

The Return Of Yahoo Search

The Return Of Yahoo Search

Last week I reported that Yahoo Search posted on Twitter that it will be making search cool again. As I posted on Search Engine Land yesterday, we got more evidence that Yahoo is really moving forward with improving its search service. Last night, Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Yahoo (more about him below), responded to Greg Sterling and myself about Yahoo getting into search: Greg, I think you and Barry know – there are always new ways around the mountain. No reason to go straight at it. But… Source link

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Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights

Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights

The search marketing community is trying to make sense of the leaked Yandex repository containing files listing what looks like search ranking factors. Some may be looking for actionable SEO clues but that’s probably not the real value. The general agreement is that it will be helpful for gaining a general understanding of how search engines work. If you want hacks or shortcuts those aren’t here. But if you want to understand more about how a search engine works. There’s gold. —… Source link

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Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors

Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors

Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of Russian tech giant Yandex’s many apps and services. It also revealed key ranking factors for Yandex’s search engine, the kind… Source link

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Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Exposed

Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Exposed

Yandex had a boatload of its source code across all its technology allegedly leaked by a disgruntled employee and part of that was the source code for Russia’s largest search engine – Yandex. As you can imagine, SEOs and others are diving in and seeing what they can learn from the source code. I personally did not download the source code, so I did not go through it myself but I wanted to share what people did find via Twitter from their investigations of the source code. Here’s the… Source link

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Yahoo is making a return to search

Yahoo is making a return to search

Yahoo Search seems like it will be making a come back in the future. Yahoo has been dropping hints over the past couple of weeks related to this return and is also hiring a Principal Product Manager for the Yahoo Search platform to help lead these initiatives. The job posting. Yahoo posted a job listing for a “Principal Product Manager, Yahoo Search” a few weeks ago. The job posting, in part, reads, “We’re looking for a Product Manager for… Source link

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‘Google it’ no more? How AI could change the way we search the web | Science & Tech News

‘Google it’ no more? How AI could change the way we search the web | Science & Tech News

It’s hard to imagine the internet without Google. The tech giant has become so synonymous with searching the web that it has become a verb – we don’t look it up, we “Google it”. Google ended 2022 as it ends every year, as the most visited website in the world. Its estimated share of the search engine market stands at 92% (Microsoft‘s Bing is its closest rival, on 3%). On the surface, it might not like a landscape that’s ripe for change but don’t be so sure. The launch of ChatGPT,… Source link

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