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Originally Posted by jbgilbert
The facts jack....
When Yahoo left Google, their new crawler went into overdrive and their crawling remains an improvement over the old Inktomi.
However, Indexing the pages they crawl remains a problem -- well maybe not a problem, just slow (no comparison to Google's speed in indexing).
I can't say Yahoo's indexing is a "problem" because Yahoo may intentionally index slowly. I'm stating only my opinion here, but if I were wanting a pay product like Site Match to succeed and still wanted to offer free submission, the only benefit left for Site Match is speedier indexing...
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Bingo!!! We have been talking (some of us anyway) about what was going to transpire in August with Yahoo after they no longer have the google-crutch.
I too noticed the rise in Slurp activity, but non-existant indexing. It does appear that those pages are being held in some dark corner somewhere. For what purpose ... cannot say.
The SiteMatch thing though, I dunno if that is their intent to drum up registrations because of this. I cannot see Yahoo purposely holding back the indexing, not intentionally anyway.
Across a handful of sites that I pay close attention to, Slurp gobbled up several hundred pages a couple of weeks ago. Not one page has made it into the index. It is like Yahoo is frozen right now -- maybe PNE is right that Yahoo will be coming thru with a major update of that Index shortly. Hope so ... then we will see what Yahoo is really made of.