Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Slurp - Yahoo! Newest Search Crawler

According to Yahoo! Search Blog, they had just "launched a new Yahoo! Search Crawler, Yahoo! Slurp earlier this week. In addition to crawling the Internet faster, our new crawler is more efficient at visiting websites. As a result, site owners will notice as much as a 25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler. [...]

With this change of behavior in the crawler, you may see some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index and some changes in ranking as well."

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