----------------------------------------------------------------- SearchReturn Discussion List "Understanding Internet Search Technology" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Moderator: Published by: Disa Johnson SearchReturn http://www.searchreturn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- October 26, 2006 SearchReturn Issue #102 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SEND POSTS: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Refer a friend: http://www.searchreturn.com/subscribe.shtml ----------------------------------------------------------------- .....IN THIS DIGEST..... // -- FEATURED POST -- // "Personalization" ~ Anonymous // -- ESSENTIAL NEWS -- // "Yahoo! Toolbar Update" "Official Yahoo! Support For NOODP" ----------------------------------------------------------------- // -- FEATURED POST -- // ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> Personalization Disa, We are experts at cloaking. We are using Offermatica to serve different pages to different consumers. Isn't that essentially cloaking? I can guarantee you that the bots are cashing different versions of our site that the one you go and see. Seems like Cloaking has gone mainstream and legit a while ago. I guess that cloaking used for non-evil purposes is ok... ----------------------------------------------------------------- // -- ESSENTIAL NEWS -- // ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> Yahoo! Toolbar Update http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623769 Essentials: The latest update to the Yahoo! browser toolbar includes enhancements for additional bookmarking features. While not yet any sort of integration between the toolbar and the social bookmarking site del.icio.us, the new features borrow some from the benefits that del.icio.us users would be familiar with, particularly tagging. Bookmarking in the toolbar, however, will not offer any of the social aspects, namely sharing, that del.icio.us offers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ==> Official Yahoo! Support For NOODP http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000368.html Essentials: Yahoo!'s Tim Mayer promised future support of the Meta NOODP container, and this has now been officially announced along with syntax for instructing robots to not use ODP. You can single out Yahoo!'s crawler specifically by identifying it's user-agent name: slurp. When you specify all robots, Yahoo! will follow the instructions along with the rest. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------