Thursday, June 02, 2005
Yahoo! Mindset Review Continued
The other day I started looking into the Yahoo! Mindset search feature and gave a brief intro into what it's all about. Now, after using it for a couple days I've got more data on how it works and what you can do with the technology behind it, like search tweaks and such.Initial Yahoo Mindset Thoughts
Being able to control whether I'm seeing commercial or non-commercial results is a decent feature but the more you use it the more subjective you realize it all really is. I mean, apple.com comes up when I search for ipod and tweak it towards the research side. You can try any number of searches and see the same type results.
I think I'd rather have the ability to drill down into different categories of content rather than categorizing content into research vs commerical. Say you search for ipod and you want to drill down into pages that have accessories on them, and don't care about them being commercial or not. This would allow Yahoo to enter the niche vertical market while using the same database they currently have, not bad huh?
Using Yahoo Mindset To Your Advantage
One interesting feature of Yahoo! Mindset is that every time you conduct a search or move the slider it indexes every page in your result set. So if you have a site that hasn't been spidered by Yahoo in some time and you want to get your site spidered then you can simply enter the search site:www.marketingshift.com and it will index all the results on the page you're currently viewing. Then, there is a link at the top of the page that tells you to click here to reload the results. Now when the results are shown, any site that had a gray bar next to it will now have a bar with orange on either side of it indicating whether it's research related or commercial. Scanning through each of the pages of results will ensure that at least Yahoo's Mindset app will know about the pages they need to visit on your site.
Now I'm not sure whether or not it means Yahoo's normal spider will index your site or not and I haven't done any tracking to check into that but that's easily done with any decent stats package. If you need help in getting the code done yourself then just ping me and I'll put up a post showing how to accomplish it.
More to come later.
Posted By Jason Dowdell at 05:17 PM
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