Yahoo! is moving their Inktomi bot from inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net. The user-agent will still be Yahoo!Slurp, thus it looks like nothing more than a relocation and unfortunately, there has been no update to the bot itself. The IP address isn’t changing either.
This is disappointing … we’ve been waiting since the takeover by Yahoo! that Slurp would get the update it needs. Instead, it will continue to get caught in “spider traps” that are simplistic. It seems that Yahoo! Search continues to be on the back burner with the Yahoo! execs.
The main reason I started the SEO Revolution was out of frustration. Frustration at all of the lies and misconceptions that are posted in forums, given as advice in teleconferences, and even taught in live workshops. "So why didn't all of this work?" " Why wasn't my site successful?" " Why am I still stuck in a rut?" 