Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Yahoo! Search blog: Our Blog is Growing Up – And So Has Our Index:
"It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since we launched the Yahoo! Search Blog. On this anniversary I thought this would be a good time to update you on some of what we’ve been up to at Yahoo! Search. If you are a regular reader then you’ve seen lots of posts over the past year highlighting what we’ve been working on:
* Vertical search – Local, Video, Audio, Creative Commons, Subscriptions as well as ongoing updates to Image Search
* Personal & social search – My Web and My Web 2.0
* Flickr
* Y!Q our contextual search technology
* Our award winning Yahoo! Desktop Search
* Open search APIs across all our verticals via the Yahoo! Developer Network
But you will notice we haven’t talked much about plain old Web search. You know, the one that gets used billions of times a month by people all over the world. We don’t blog about it as often as our other products, but since it is the foundation for everything we do it’s always top of mind. Since our first post on the search blog was about Yahoo! Search, I thought I would give you an update on what’s been happening.
As those of you who follow this blog know, I recently posted a weather report alerting you to material changes to our index. Since that post, we've seen some discussion from webmasters who have noticed more of their documents in our index. As it turns out we have grown our index and just reached a significant milestone at Yahoo! Search – our index now provides access to over 20 billion items. While we typically don't disclose size (since we've always said that size is only one dimension of the quality of a search engine), for those who are curious this update includes just over 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files. Note that as with all index updates we are still tuning things so you’ll continue to see some fluctuation in ranking over the next few weeks..."
"It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since we launched the Yahoo! Search Blog. On this anniversary I thought this would be a good time to update you on some of what we’ve been up to at Yahoo! Search. If you are a regular reader then you’ve seen lots of posts over the past year highlighting what we’ve been working on:
* Vertical search – Local, Video, Audio, Creative Commons, Subscriptions as well as ongoing updates to Image Search
* Personal & social search – My Web and My Web 2.0
* Flickr
* Y!Q our contextual search technology
* Our award winning Yahoo! Desktop Search
* Open search APIs across all our verticals via the Yahoo! Developer Network
But you will notice we haven’t talked much about plain old Web search. You know, the one that gets used billions of times a month by people all over the world. We don’t blog about it as often as our other products, but since it is the foundation for everything we do it’s always top of mind. Since our first post on the search blog was about Yahoo! Search, I thought I would give you an update on what’s been happening.
As those of you who follow this blog know, I recently posted a weather report alerting you to material changes to our index. Since that post, we've seen some discussion from webmasters who have noticed more of their documents in our index. As it turns out we have grown our index and just reached a significant milestone at Yahoo! Search – our index now provides access to over 20 billion items. While we typically don't disclose size (since we've always said that size is only one dimension of the quality of a search engine), for those who are curious this update includes just over 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files. Note that as with all index updates we are still tuning things so you’ll continue to see some fluctuation in ranking over the next few weeks..."
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