Yahoo Search Says Goodbye to Google

Yahoo officially dropped Google as its default search technology provider for US based sites early Wednesday morning. Yahoo replaced Google’s results with its own Yahoo Search Technology, which combines an array of recently acquired search technologies, such as Inktomi and commercial search provider Overture Services.

New search features include:

• Search results from the Yahoo/Inktomi index which consists of paid inclusion and sites crawled by the Yahoo Slurp bot
• A cached version of each Web page is now available.
• User feedback survey located at the bottom of each search result where users are offered the chance to take a customer survey about the success and usability of the new system.

More on Inktomi:

Inktomi was acquired over a year ago by Yahoo in an attempt to break away from its partnership from Google and try to regain an edge in the search engine competition realm - which they did this morning.

Yahoo uses the Yahoo Slurp robot and Inktomi Paid XML Inclusion for its soon to be released fully Yahoo branded search results, giving a lot of attention to the Inktomi paid inclusion service.

Inktomi uses a paid inclusion program, pay per click XML feeds and a site spidering program to build its index.

More on Yahoo Slurp:

Yahoo’s new robot keeps a similar name to the Inktomi Slurp crawler and some features listed on Yahoo include:

• Yahoo! Slurp has the ability to crawl dynamic links or dynamically generated documents.
• The Yahoo! Slurp crawler collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for search services using the Yahoo! search engine (this helps verify a soon addition of Inktomi to the Yahoo search results). These documents are crawled since other documents on the web contain links to these documents.
• Yahoo! Slurp crawls from your site in the Yahoo! search engines immediately. The documents will be indexed and included into the search database in the near future.
• Yahoo! Slurp will offer cache indexing (similar to Google) and obeys the noarchive meta-tag. If you place: META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”noarchive” in the head of your web document, Yahoo! Slurp will retrieve the document, but it will not cache or archive the document for use in the PageCache system.
• Yahoo! Slurp also obeys the noindex meta-tag. If you place: META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”noindex” in the head of your website, Yahoo! Slurp will retrieve the document, but it will not index the document or place it in the search engine’s database.

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