Yahoo! release a new crawler
New crawler offers a 25% reduction in requests and bandwidth
Yahoo! have today announced that there is a new crawler in town. The new Yahoo! crawler (Slurp) is built for speed and will now consume 25% less bandwidth.
The new crawler has apparently been about for the last couple of weeks, working in tandem with the old version. The old crawler has now been fully turned off, which will mean a lower load on website being indexed.
The result of this new crawler will mean that there will be a possible reshuffle of pages in the search results and the number of pages in the index. This will certainly explain the issues that some webmasters/site owners have been having with their pages and rankings being dropped.
I personally will be glad not to see old slurp crawler so much! For more information visit the Yahoo! blog.
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