Category: Yahoo Search Engine & Yahoo SEO

The new Yahoo Search experience may launch as soon as a few months from now. Brian Provost, the Senior VP and General Manager of Yahoo Search, said the new Yahoo Search experience will be launching in the very early days of 2024.

As you know, Yahoo is planning a come back to search with a new way of thinking about Yahoo Search. What that means, we don’t know yet, but we do know Yahoo is thinking hard about how they can compete. Greg Sterling ran a Twitter poll asking if Yahoo h…

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.

Yahoo posted on Twitter under its Yahoo Search account, “Just popping in to remind everyone that we did search before it was cool. BRB making it cool again.” Is that some sort of tease that Yahoo is about to announce something big with web search?

If you visit Yahoo and do a search at their web site, you will see that to get to the organic listings…

Yahoo is testing a new search interface. The new interface moves the Yahoo logo from the left side of the search box, all the way to the right side. It also adds a menu to the right that opens various new options from Yahoo. Finally…

Ruben Gomez posted on Twitter yet another Yahoo Search test. This one is with the top search bar you find on many of the Yahoo properties and of course, on Yahoo Search.

The new search bar is taller and more spacious…

Ruben Gomez spotted a user interface test by Yahoo Search which looks almost identical to the Google search interface.

Here is a screen shot of the test interface captured by Ruben:

You can click on these to enlarge…

Yahoo and Mozilla announced last night that they have formed a partnership where Yahoo will become the default search provider in the US on their popular Firefox browser. This is big news for Yahoo…

When you ask a search engine [when is Black Friday], most search engines will give you the day and date, i.e. Friday, November 28.

But with one interesting query on Yahoo Search…

Over a year ago, Yahoo launched their new logo and truth is, I ran a poll back then asking if you liked it but never published the results. Since I am offline today, it is a good day to share poll results.

This is the logo:

Truth is…

Yahoo is testing a new design for their search results page. The new design is drastically different, making the layout much more boxed in, more like a card look…

A few months ago, many publishers and webmasters began noticing a huge spike in referrers from hsrd.yahoo.com.

Scanning through the Yahoo Answers and Microsoft Answers threads…

A couple months ago new rumors surfaced around Yahoo making a return to search…

Yelp and Yahoo have partnered to show Yelp local content within Yahoo Search results.

Specifically, when you search Yahoo for local US businesses, you may see Yelp’s rich reviews, ratings, photos and business information directly in the Yahoo results….

Yahoo is now defaulting all their search results over SSL, which is secure search but also means that pesky [not provided] figure will increase.

Danny Sullivan broke the story at Search Engine Land yesterday. In short, if you do a search at Yahoo.c…

Yahoo announced its new logo this past week and it has now been on the Yahoo properties for the past few days. You’ve had time to adjust to it and see how it blends into the site.

What do you think of it…

Yahoo announced they launched a new design for their Yahoo Search search results page.
The new design promises an improvement, by:
Improving the load time of the results
Moving the search results higher up…