I was reviewing a post in one of the forums concerning Yahoo and stumbled upon something odd at Yahoo Search. While conducting a search for Singapore Web Hosting, the word Web was not bolded in the result titles. Furthermore, the cache versions of those pages did not reflect that word as being highlighted. The word, web, was being bolded in the abstracts. Just not the other two areas.
The same phenomenon happened for singapore web design. Other variations, same thing (such as texas web design, free web design, etc.) Quite strange.
Close examination of the results revealed that this was not always the case. Two results out of the top 100 did have the word web bolded in the title and highlighted in the cache version of the pages. Also -- the paid result titles had the word Web in bold lettering.
I immediately went to Daniel Brandt's Yahoo-Watch to see if they may be possible SiteMatch sites.
I ran the one query and saw that those two did not have the big green dollar sign next to them. Actually Daniel appears to have dropped all of the usual designations from the results, so I am not sure if they are SiteMatch sites or not. When did he stop showing the designations?
This is a screenshot (opens in new window) of what I saw. Ignore the red arrow on the one result with the directory category. The directory does not have any bearing on whether Web appears bolded in the title/cache or not. (I was too lazy to remove it.)
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