Nuts and Bolts of Search Engines Comments Off
Yahoo!
Yahoo is an example of a topical search engine (also sometimes referred to as a vertical search engine). The methodology of a topical search engine is to focus on specific industries, sectors or topics. Yahoo is still a 100% human edited directory, with secondary search engine results generated through Google. That, of course, means that a good listing in Google will also mean visitors from Yahoo as well. Yahoo is still one of the largest traffic generators around, in terms of search engines and web directories. A listing with Yahoo involves “suggesting” a URL, which is then reviewed by a Yahoo editor (find the proper category and click on the “suggest a site” link at the bottom of Yahoo’s home page). Unfortunately, the listing process at Yahoo can take quite some time before your site gets recommended.