As Yahoo says in the search blog they released a new web crawler (Slurp) on July 28 which should be more efficient in crawling websites and thus reduce the number of requests by about 25%. This should result in using less bandwidth consumed by the crawler. Also we can expect some changes in the way pages are indexed.

A Quote from Yahoo’s Search Blog:
“We 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.”

To read the entire post, follow this link.

So watch your sites for any change in yahoo search results.

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