Last week Yahoo! launched a new search crawler aka Yahoo! Slurp. Yahoo representatives consider that implementation of Slurp search crawler due to its enhanced speed and efficiency at visiting sites will lead to 25% decrease in the bandwidth consumed by crawler as well as number of requests.

Before turning off the old crawler completely Yahoo ran both of the crawlers. But now Slurp is in its full power and works on its own. Yahoo claimed to have seen increase in frequency of crawler requests to the sites and lessening in crawler load.

If you’ll see some shuffling in the rankings and pages indexation with Yahoo – don’t worry, it is about innovations introduced to Yahoo search system.

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