----------------------------------------------------------------- SearchReturn Discussion List "Understanding Internet Search Technology" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Moderator: Published by: Disa Johnson SearchReturn http://www.searchreturn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- August 01, 2006 SearchReturn Issue #081 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SEND POSTS: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Refer a friend: http://www.searchreturn.com/subscribe.shtml ----------------------------------------------------------------- .....IN THIS DIGEST..... // -- ESSENTIAL NEWS -- // "New Yahoo! Slurp" "New MSNBot Agent Names" "Video Cutts" ----------------------------------------------------------------- // -- ESSENTIAL NEWS -- // ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> New Yahoo! Slurp http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000334.html Essentials: Over the weekend, Yahoo!'s new version of Slurp started indexing sites full-time, with as much as a 25% increase in efficiency described as fewer requests and subsequent bandwidth savings for webmasters. The Yahoo! weather report from a short while ago is when the new crawler made its debut. Yahoo! indicated that the new crawler is now full-time, and to expect shuffling of your page results as the old crawler is shut down in favor of the new one. The new crawler should be an improvement overall, and Yahoo! is asking for feedback on odd behavior (especially technical problems). ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> New MSNBot Agent Names http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/004259.html Essentials: MSN has some new user-agent names for their crawlers, specifically for shopping, news and image search. The Web search crawler will still be seen as MSNBot. The other names are: msnbot-products msnbot-news msnbot-media Comment? mailto:digest@searchreturn.com?subject=MSN ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> Video Cutts http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060801-092846 Essentials: Matt Cutts has a series of six videos on topics of special interest to the webmaster community and search marketers. Each video is approximately 5 minutes in length. Quality of a Good Site Myths, Large Site Launches, and Google Images Optimize for Search Engines or Users? Static vs. Dynamic urls How to structure a site? Supplemental Results There's reportedly not a lot of action, but short of that, it is definately worth checking out the famed Googler's video. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stay Tuned. Got feedback?: http://www.searchreturn.com/feedback.shtml Archives: http://www.searchreturn.com/digest-archive.shtml Alternate formats: http://www.searchreturn.com/info-formats.shtml Manage Subscriptions: http://www.searchreturn.com/help/manage-subs.shtml Problems unsubscribing? Contact the postmaster: mailto:postmaster@searchreturn.com Information on how to sponsor this publication: http://www.searchreturn.com/help/advertise.shtml Published by SearchReturn http://www.searchreturn.com Website Membership: http://www.searchreturn.com/register.shtml The contents of the digest do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SearchReturn or Disa Johnson. SearchReturn and Disa Johnson make no warranties, either expressed or implied, about the truth or accuracy of the contents of the SearchReturn Digest. Copyright 2006 Disa Johnson. All Rights Reserved. -----------------------------------------------------------------