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Today we welcome Yoelle Maarek to Yahoo! as Senior Director of Yahoo! Research. She will be leading the Yahoo! Lab in Haifa, Israel along with Ronny Lempel. Their teams help further Yahoo!’s commitment to discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web.

You might know Yoelle as the former engineering director at the Google Haifa Engineering Center, which she founded in 2006. Her team launched features such as Google Suggest, Searching Ads, and Interactive Annotations on YouTube. Prior to Google, Yoelle was with IBM Research, where she held series of technical and management positions, first at T.J. Watson Research in New York, and then at the IBM Haifa Research Lab in Israel. You can go to Yoelle’s website to read all about her impressive research experience in information retrieval, Web applications, and collaborative technologies.

Prabhakar Raghavan
Head of Yahoo! Labs and Yahoo! Search Strategy

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We’re rolling out some updates to our crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms over the next few days. During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.

To share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board.

Dan Rampton
Yahoo! Search

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• Build Fast Back Links With The Mass Social Bookmarking Tools - SocialMarker   The fastest way to build backlink to your site is with Social Bookmark! Today I am going to introduce to you this great web service, and the best part is: it is free! Select any page that you want to rank on the first page, use social bookmark /......
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• Optimising Your Framed Site For Search Engines One method that web designers can use to design and structure a website is to use frames. However, if your web site utilises frames then you could have major problems getting indexed in the search engines. Although site design using frames has become less prominent with the rise in popularity......

Over the next few weeks, Yahoo! Search will be at Search Engine Strategies (SES) in Toronto and the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA. Come by and hear more about what we have up our sleeves.

SES Toronto
Monday, June 8
2:30pm-3:45pm
Panel: Universal and Blended Search: Comprehensive Visibility Challenges
Nick Cox, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Search

Semantic Technology Conference
Wednesday, June 17
8:30am - 09:45am
Executive Round Table: Semantic Search
Andrew Tompkins, Chief Scientist, Yahoo! Search

11:45am - 12:15pm
SearchMonkey and the Semantic Web
Kevin Haas, Senior Engineering Manager – SearchMonkey, Yahoo! Search

2:30pm - 3:30pm
Year of the Monkey: Lessons from the first year of SearchMonkey
Peter Mika, Researcher, Yahoo! Research

Hope to see you there.

Yahoo! Search

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• Voting Time: Top Ten Nominees for Green Business of the Year. From Co-op America (one of my favorite sites), below are the top ten most popular green business nominations for 2008. See what green consumers are saying about the businesses, check out their Web sites, and then vote for your favorite before October 9. 1. Alter Eco San Francisco, CA......

Starting today you will see some subtle changes we’ve made in Sitemaps, partnering with Microsoft and Google.

First, we have updated the xsd files with the XML schemas for Sitemap or Siteindex files. The updated xsd files allow better extensibility of the Sitemaps protocol. All your existing Sitemaps will continue to validate so you don’t need to make any changes.

Second, the protocol will now allow 50,000 Sitemaps per Siteindex, up from the previous limit of 1000 Sitemaps. The file size limit will stay at 10MB.

We hope these changes will make it easier for you to use Sitemaps and submit them to Site Explorer for Yahoo! to index.

Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

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• Microsoft Yahoo Search Deal Here's some important facts you may have missed from the press release. MSN has been a slow, lumbering search engine.  So it takes a long time to get your pages indexed and ranked. However, my sites do tend to do well in MSN. So I'm excited about this news. Microsoft-Yahoo......
• 13 Reasons Why Palm Pixi is Better than the Apple iPhone /caption]The Palm Pixi is coming out in less than a week. With that in mind we thought we'd highlight some of the advantages that the Pixi has over the iPhone. Keep in mind that Pixi is aimed to be a cheaper, low-end device, so it's intentionally missing some features found......
• New Online Tools for Better Travel Planning Baby boomers have more time to travel than many other age groups. In prior decades, we would consult a travel agent to help us plan our travels. Now, with so much travel information available to us online, we can act as our own travel agent. There are hundreds of online......

Today we are announcing our support of Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format for Web pages. Developed jointly by a group of Web companies including Zemanta, Metaweb, and Yahoo!, the Common Tag format adds semantic meaning to tags, making Web content more discoverable and enabling the community to create more useful applications for aggregating, searching, and browsing the Web.

At Yahoo! Search, we’re proponents of open formats that accelerate the structuring of the Web and that improve the community’s overall ability to understand the Web. You can read more about this new format, which just launched today, on the Common Tag Website.

Yahoo! Search

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