Crawlers, Robots and a Peek at Browser Plus

A trio of publisher-related news items from the blogosphere
Earlier this week, the Yahoo! Search Team announced changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. According to the Yahoo! Search blog, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index throughout the transition process, which should be completed soon.
Worried about robots taking over the world? Don’t be. They are our friends—especially the mini-robots mentioned in the MyBlogLog Blog. With the help of mini-robots, it’s really easy to refresh the thumbnail screenshot of your site on MyBlogLog. These new mini-robots take little screenshots of your site and upload it to your MyBlogLog community page. They may sound cute, but don’t underestimate their power. In fact, I for one welcome our new mini-robot overlords, I mean, mini-robot helpers.
Finally, the Yahoo! Developer Blog unveiled a sneak peak of the new BrowserPlus platform this week. The BrowserPlus platform, according to the blog, extends […]

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