tim mayer – who is tim mayer? the search king of yahoo.

who is tim mayer?

Behind the product direction of Yahoo! Search technology is the brilliant brain of Tim Mayer. He has over 10 years of search experience in Yahoo added to his achievements in Overture, Inktomi, FAST Search & Transfer.
Tim was the Project manager of the SAEGIS and NameStake search platforms. A literature Graduate with an M.B.A. from Babson College he has been successful in all his career endeavors.
Tim spent two years in product management and product marketing in the web search division at Inktomi. Then Tim became the Vice President and General Manager of the FAST Web Search division.
At overture he successfully did production direction and also managed the major web search affiliate partner relationships.

How to remove yahoo search engine algorithm penalty,

Yahoo is severe in imposing penalties to sites, If any site goes outside yahoo’s quality guidelines and gets caught they will be immediately removed from yahoo’s index, Symptoms of yahoo search penalty

1.Only homepage will be available in site:yourdomain.com search,
2. the sites pages will start to drop out of index completely,
3. yahoo slurp never visits a site for a long time even if the site has good links,

remedies to get rid of the penalty,

1. Clean up all potential search engine spam and ask yahoo for a reinclusion,
2. Clean up the site and wait for yahoo’s slurp to recrawl the site,
3. submit via yahoo’s content submission program after clean up of site,

SEO blog team,

Overture re-brands as Yahoo! Search Marketing – Overture search marketing solutions planned to be renamed yahoo search marketing solutions

Yahoo has planned to rename overture brand to yahoo search marketing solutions, Overture was acquired by yahoo, now they have planned to rename the Overture brand to yahoo search marketing solutions, overture was leading pay per click search engines, When yahoo acquired overture they integrated overture PPC in yahoo search results,

More news here http://itvibe.com/news/3327/

YSDN – Yahoo! Search Developer Network, Yahoo web search services introduces API based developer networks,

Yahoo has recently launched the developer network, Google first gave away users with an API where anyone can query google with a limit of 1000 queries per day, Now yahoo has launched similiar developer platform using their own Application Programmer Interface,

Yahoo search developer network,

To register for an API Key, visit here, http://api.search.yahoo.com/webservices/register_application

Read FAQ here http://developer.yahoo.net/faq/

Documentation http://developer.yahoo.net/documentation/

Download API SDK, http://developer.yahoo.net/download/download.html

Yahoo Video search Rocks, Yahoo’s video search has some excellent videos for all type of searches,

Yahoo’s video search is an excellent product from yahoo, yahoo has introduced ways to search videos online, they use their web crawler yahoo slurp to index millions of video URLS and give that to their Users, yahoo video search is excellent,

Today I was browsing through videos of yahoo and they have a huge database, I was very excited by seeing some videos which I had never seen before, though their product looks more similar to altavista video search they have more videos than altavista used to have those days, Now altavista is owned by yahoo and we can expect some technology implementation of altavista into yahoo video search,

overall yahoo video search is a great product,

To read more on yahoo video search visit their help page,

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/video/index.html

Also their search blog describes ways to include your own videos,

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000060.html

Yahoo accepts video URLs in Media RSS format,

To submit your videos to yahoo video search visit this URL,

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit.html

What is media RSS??

“Media RSS” is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilities of RSS 2.0. RSS enclosures are already being used to syndicate audio files and images. Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, as well as provide additional metadata with the media. Media RSS enables content publishers and bloggers to syndicate multimedia content such as TV and video clips, movies, images, and audio.

From http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/

You can even to advanced yahoo video search visit the yahoo videos help page for more information,

Yahoo’s Image search index increases to 1.5 billion images,

Yahoo image search index has increased to over 1.5 billion images, Initially yahoo had 1 billion images, then google updated their index with about 1,187,630,000 images, Now yahoo index has increased to over 1.5 billion images,

Hotbot says bye to yahoo search results, Now uses google search results

hotbot.com a search engine used by very low number of users was powered by Inktomi search now yahoo search, Until recently I used to check hotbot for our clients since hotbot results used to show the dates which the yahoo slurp crawler visited our sites and our clients, Now when I performed a search suddenly results were completely different,

then the results was compared to google and it was similar, It seems hotbot search engine has stopped using yahoo search engine results and now using google search results,

Not a big significant change but worth knowing,

Yahoo’s Toolbar features – Yahoo firefox toolbar and internet explorer toolbar

yahoo recently launched their toolbar for firefox browser, Firefox is an increasingly popular browser next to internet explorer of microsoft, you can down load firefox toolbar here,

toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox

Also their internet explorer toolbar version has various features some of them are,

• Easy access to Yahoo! Search
• Bookmarks and custom buttons that follow you anywhere
• Search This Site to find results just for the current web site
• Search History to remember your previous searches
• Translate This Page based on the popular Babelfish tools
• Mail notification when new Yahoo! Mail arrives
• One click access to Yahoo! Games, Finance, News, Sports and any web site you choose
  New Feature: One click “Add to My Yahoo” on sites that provide RSS/Atom feeds

Yahoo Test-Drives a New Search Technology

Yahoo Test-Drives a New Search Technology according to a news article,

http://www.24x7updates.com/FullStory-News-Yahoo_Test_Drives_a_New_Search_Technology-ID-37838.html

How It Works.

In the Yahoo News implementation, headlines are accompanied by Search Related Info links, which trigger a YQ search. A small search-results box pops up on top of the Web page being viewed. Users have the option to click on one of those results, close the results box, or click on a link that leads to a separate page with a longer list of results. With the DemoBar, users highlight portions of the text of the Web page they’re visiting

Yahoo sets off with video search competing with their rivals

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000072.html reports yahoo video search tab added to the main tab,

It looks like a great improvement and should help a lot of yahoo search visitors,