Yahoo toolbar WebRank (TM) Introduction

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Author Serge Thilbodeau, compiling Lela

The recent Yahoo has repeatedly introduced new development measures, in this already fiery search engine industry has caused bursts of waves. Yahoo now has its own toolbar. The toolbar is similar to Google's toolbar work style, which Yahoo named Web Rank (TM). The Web Ranktm is based on Yahoo's new search algorithm and the name of its new toolbar.

Yahoo's web Rank (tm) toolbar is similar to Google's PageRank (tm) toolbar and is a technical tool for measuring the popularity of specific URLs. The downloaded Yahoo Web rank (tm) toolbar has an icon that shows Web Rank (tm) scoring the URL for each access.

Like Google, Web rank (TM) scores from 1 to 10 are grouped into 10 levels, and the higher the score indicates the better the link popularity. So a site with high web Rank scores is expected to provide more useful information and content, at least in theory.

It should be noted that Web Rank (TM) is still in beta, which means Yahoo still tests and corrects its way of working, and is expected to see its final official version in the coming weeks.

The Yahoo Companion toolbar first collects Web Rank (tm) to activate the user's anonymous URL data for the site, and then returns it to Yahoo to help Web Rank (tm) determine the rating of the site. According to Yahoo, the new toolbar will not collect user's personal confirmation information, such as name, telephone number, address and email address.

After the anonymous URL data is sent to the Yahoo Server, the companion toolbar returns the Web Rank (TM) rating, which is a single measure of the popularity of the page, or the popularity score of the pages you visit.

The Yahoo Companion toolbar has a small button that shows the rating of Web Rank (TM) on the site being visited. The score range is 1 to 10. The Yahoo Web Rank (TM) score is calculated using the scoring formula developed by Yahoo Labs to measure the popularity of web pages and websites that users visit.

The Yahoo Web Rank (TM) toolbar is easy to install. With the help of the Yahoo Companion toolbar, users can choose whether to activate the Web Rank (TM) feature. If you want to use this scoring feature, just select the Install with Web Rank button on the new toolbar. This installation process takes only 2 minutes and is therefore very convenient.

After installation, if you change your mind, you can also turn off the scoring function. The method is still simple: on the Yahoo Companion toolbar, click the "Toolbar Settings" button, remove the "Enable Web Rank" option is OK. After that, the companion toolbar stops collecting anonymous URL data, and Web Rank (TM) loses its scoring function.

If you're running the toolbar on your internal network and want to get rid of the scoring feature, just block http://cpn.Yahoo-webranknet on the firewall and proxy server, which will prevent the return of anonymous URL data to the Yahoo server and revoke Web rank functionality.

Do you really need the Yahoo Companion toolbar?

If you don't want to use the Yahoo Companion toolbar, you don't need to download it at all. Yahoo Web Ranktm feature is only activated when selected, if you do not need this feature will not be necessary to install the Yahoo Companion toolbar. When you follow the companion toolbar, you are prompted to activate the Web Rank (TM) feature in the toolbar.

Select Yes, and the Web Rank (TM) Rating button on the toolbar displays the value of the URL that is currently accessed.

The new cool feature of Web Rank

After the use of Yahoo new toolbar for some time, the author found many of the toolbar's many new cool features. One of them is what Yahoo calls "recent Searches" (the most recent search) feature. This feature shows the 30 most recently used search terms on Yahoo Companion in the Drop-down menu. Through the test, the author found that 12 search terms can be directly displayed, the other 18 need to use the scroll button display.

According to Yahoo's introduction, all the latest search information will not be leaked, returned to their servers. If for privacy and other reasons, you want to turn off the "recent Searches" feature, you can select clear Recent Searches (purge recent search records) at any time in the Toolbar Settings (toolbar setting). The toolbar Settings button is labeled with a small pencil so it is easy to find.

To completely undo the most recent search functionality, simply remove the Enable recent Searches option from the Toolbar Settings menu. This setting deletes all entries in the most recent search record and completely revokes the functionality.

Other features

Yahoo's new web Rank (TM) algorithm has more functionality. In addition to the above introduction, there are the following features:

1. It helps Yahoo to identify new trends in the identification of network activities and how to use it to enhance the quality and relevance of products and services.

2. It also helps Yahoo identify new sites more quickly and add them to their search index library, making search results more relevant and significantly improving all search results.

Benefits for the site

For site owners and webmasters, the new Yahoo Web Ranktm algorithm will bring them the following benefits:

1. Yahoo Web Ranktm algorithm can give valuable information, point to other sites to visit users and site administrators of the views of the site;

2. In addition, Yahoo's new web Rank (TM) algorithm helps alert Yahoo crawler slurp to discovering a site and Web page that is not included and directing it to access the site or Web page to add them to the search index library.

Conclusion

From Yahoo to abandon the use of Google-provided search results to launch their own search engine Yahoo! Slurp, now has its own toolbar, you can see that Yahoo will not only replace Google to occupy leadership position, but also to surpass Google. With the advent of various development projects, as well as new search engine algorithms, new toolbars and so on, I believe there will be more exciting news in the coming years.

Now that the industry is booming, I personally think that the search engine industry will reach 30 million U.S. dollars in 2005-2006. The current network development speed calculation, to 2010 will reach 100 million U.S. dollars output value.

Living in Montreal, Quebec suburbs of Serge Thibodeau has been engaged in professional search engine optimization and priority ranking services since 1997 to optimize business sites for medium and small-sized enterprises and the world's top 500 enterprises. In addition, he also served as rankforsales.com CEO. Serge Thibodeau is also responsible for planning and directing work in the development of Project PAGINATM (a powerful SEO tool that is used by professional search engine optimization). PAGINATM is proposed by the rank for sales parent company Gcis Inc. You can write to sthibodeau@rankforsales.com or call toll-free 1-800-631-3221 to contact Serge Thibodeau.