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Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a "lossless" tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality. After Smush.it runs on a web page it reports how many bytes would be saved by optimizing the page's images and provides a downloadable zip file with the minimized image files. Who knew Yahoo had such a tool. Every image I tried it was able to optimize, even if it was just a little. Link: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/smushit/Labels: design, graphics, yahoo
 BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web. Link: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/Labels: development, yahoo
Take the blind search test: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/Who did you choose? I selected Bing once, Google another. Labels: google, microsoft, yahoo
It's unclear whether they brought the requested "boatloads of money," but several top Microsoft executives are in Silicon Valley to try to finalize a search deal with Yahoo, according to an All Things Digital report late on Thursday. Link: http://news.cnet.com/...Labels: microsoft, news, yahoo
Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) is quietly closing down the long-standing free web hosting service GeoCities (geocities.yahoo.com), according to a report that appeared today on TechCrunch.
A notice appearing on the GeoCities homepage says accounts are no longer available, adding, “after careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year,” and promising to share more details later this summer. Link: http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/...Labels: website, yahoo
Yahoo! Web Analytics is an enterprise site analytics tool that provides real-time insight into visitor behavior on your website. With powerful and flexible tools and dashboards, Yahoo! Web Analytics helps online marketers and website designers enhance the visitor experience, increase sales and reduce marketing costs. Google Analytics needs to step up and start offering a more real-time stats. Yahoo is now doing it (see below)... Get detailed reporting within minutes after an action occurs on your website. Quickly identify dips in key site metrics or monitor the performance of new content. Seeing the impact of website and marketing changes immediately makes it much easier to optimize them. Yahoo! Web Analytics also maintains historical data so you can go back at any time to review old data for new insight, or compare the present to the past without any changes to your page tags.
Link: http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/Labels: google, seo, yahoo
 The Yahoo! Local team had that in mind when they rolled out a new feature to help everyone from the consummate explorer to the geographically-challenged find local businesses quicker and more easily. Now, you can make refinements to your local queries in real-time, directly on the map, based on a specific geographic radius. Link: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000535.htmlLabels: yahoo
Over the past few weeks, we've [Yahoo!] been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates, which recently caused a variance in our crawl behavior.
As the new software undergoes a phased rollout to our production crawlers over the next several weeks, you'll see the following changes:
a) The crawlers will start crawling from a different and much smaller set of IP addresses, but it'll still be from the crawl.yahoo.net domain.
b) The crawlers will also publish a new user-agent, 'Yahoo! Slurp/3.0.'
Link: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000531.htmlLabels: seo, yahoo
If you've never signed up for the various webmaster accounts at the major search engines (Google, Live Search, Yahoo!) then you're missing out on a lot of very valuable information on your website. These are great tools to help increase your position within the various search engines. Where to find:- Google Webmaster - Help you with your crawling and indexing questions, introduce you to offerings that can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.
- Yahoo! Site Explorer - Allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page
- Live Search Webmaster - Use the Webmaster Tools to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your website, submit sitemaps and view
Labels: google, msn, seo, website, yahoo
Veign is now on Yahoo Local Live. Who cares, right? Correct, but posting here will get the page into Google's index faster. Labels: veign, yahoo
I wasn't sure I was going to post about this but what the heck, I post about everything else. Another tool from Veign that can give you a compact report of Google Pagerank and backlinks from various search engines in a single report. The reason I wasn't going to post about it is because its more of a tool for my needs and not sure if anyone else would even care to know about it. For now its limited to a mazimum of 10 URLs but may expand if my needs exceed 10 or I hear enough comments that request more. Link: http://www.veign.com/tools/pagerank/Labels: google, msn, seo, veign, website, yahoo
Web pages often include headers, footers, navigational sections, repeated boilerplate text, copyright notices, ad sections, or dynamic content that is useful to users — but not to search engines. Webmasters can apply the "robots-nocontent" attribute to indicate to search engines any content that is extraneous to the main unique content of the page. Yahoo! Search observes the class="robots-nocontent" present on XHTML elements, such as div, span, and all others. This is a great idea from Yahoo! as it means that web designers (and SEO companies) can better identify to the crawlers what are the actual content of the page and not just supporting content (like navigation menus). I think this could have a huge impact on the results displayed in Yahoo!, especially for those who implement the new attribute. Veign has, have you? Link: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-14.htmlBlog post from Yahoo!: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000444.htmlLabels: seo, yahoo
Yahoo! Widgets help you save time and stay current by bringing an always-updated, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet services right to your desktop.
The Yahoo! Widget Gallery offers over 4,000 desktop Widgets - the most available anywhere online. Yahoo! Widgets is the only major desktop Widgets platform that works on both Windows and Mac OSes. Link: http://widgets.yahoo.comLabels: software, windows, yahoo
Did you know that both Google and Yahoo are offering free libraries for making AJAX type interactive websites? Google Web ToolKit: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/Yahoo! UI Library (YUI): http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/Big kudos on YUI as the samples and ease of use is quite impressive Labels: development, google, yahoo
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