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Yahoo Bing Transitions In Asian Markets

Yahoo  announced  they have made the transition from Yahoo powered search results to Bing powered results in the Asian markets. These markets include Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam but exclude Korea. Yahoo also said the transition for the organic results in Greece, Poland, Romania, Switzerland (German, French and Italian languages) and Turkey are complete. I am not sure when the paid search side will be transitions, there have been issues on that front - from what I understand. Forum discussion at  WebmasterWorld .

Yahoo's Crawler Not Listening To Robots.txt Directive?

A  WebmasterWorld  thread reports that Yahoo may not be fully listening to the robots.txt directive to block their spider, Yahoo Slurp. The thing is, Yahoo spider isn't all that active these days - because Bing is now powering much of Yahoo and thus BingBot is most active. The webmaster said: Depending on the Host and UA, the official Yahoo! Slurp apparently does whatever it wants to. Note the subtle differences in the subdomains and UAs... This morning, the only Host to read/heed robots.txt was: b3091154.crawl.yahoo.net [67.195.112.189] Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) These retrieved graphics by the pageful, over 60 total: b5101137.yst.yahoo.net [98.137.72.218] b5101139.yst.yahoo.net [98.137.72.228] Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp/3.0; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) I am not sure if this is a widespread issue or something that is just a smaller bug. The main question is, shou...