Here’s my two cents about Yahoo search.
We get a lot of traffic from search engines. So we spend a lot of time optimising our SEO and our site to make sure we have as much content in the search engine index.
When it comes down to the hard numbers of referrers, 98% of our search engine [...]

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I’ve just got a response from Yahoo about a question I asked them yesterday and I got a “canned” response.
When will companies, learn that canned responses wastes your customers time!
Here’s my email to yahoo.
Hi
Yahoo Slurp is ignoring robots.txt for my site.
I had the rule
User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 200
and it is being ignored. (Its worked for months like [...]

The Velocity conference on web performance and operations is in full swing there are a wealth of information in the slides.
Here is a selection of the most interesting presentations:

AOL PageTest – AOL have created an opensource tool call PageTest to test performance on IE 7/8 and they have created a online page test to show [...]

Xlinks is a selection of interesting links as discovered by the ProjectX staff:
Study proves Bad boys really do get the girls
Added on 06/23/2008 at 03:15PM
The Pixar Touch – The Making of a company – NY Times
Added on 06/23/2008 at 03:11PM
Happiness as your business model
Added on 06/23/2008 at 03:09PM
Hacking TCP/IP to support location awareness
Added on 06/23/2008 [...]

Its official, Google are now giving priority to faster sites. (As mentioned a month ago) Slow sites risk their “Quality” score being reduced.
So its important to Google….
Larry and Sergey, articulated this philosophy in Ten things Google has found to be true. One of these principles is “Fast is better than slow.” We’ve found this rule [...]