Yahoo Index Update

Priyank Garg Product Manager Yahoo! Search posted on the their search blog (www.ysearchblog.com) that they have just completed an index update. Also to expect extra crawler activity. If anyone experiences or sees any major fluctuations please let me know.

Google Big Daddy Update complete

Hi according to Matt Cutts the BigDaddy update is fully deployed at every data centre.

He states on his blog that: "Yes, I believe every data center now has the Bigdaddy upgrade in software infrastructure, as of this weekend" (27 March 2006)

Also answering this question re the Mozilla Googlebot;

Q: “What’s the story on the Mozilla Googlebot? Is that what Bigdaddy sends out?”
A: Yes, I believe so. You will probably see less crawling by the older Googlebot, which has a User-Agent of “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)”. I believe crawling from the Bigdaddy infrastructure has a new User-Agent, which is “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

Google Search Commands - Date Syntax

Hi want to search for a subject or keyword in google using a date range? Well you can but you need to convert the date to a julian number. Who said that life was easy? What the hell is a julian date?
To Quote;http://www.maa.mhn.de/Scholar/times.html#juli
The Julian day number -- or simply the Julian day -- is a continuous count of days, starting with the day 0 that began on the 1st of January, 4713 BC at 12 o'clock noon.
Dig on the internet for more info on this story ....

Anyway so you want to find;
The date range syntax does wonders for narrowing your search results.
Peter Wells the guitarist just passed away, he was a legend and a awesome slide guitarist. To find info on Pete from 01/01/2000 to 27/3/2006, you would enter the following into Google;

"Peter Wells" "rose tattoo" daterange:2451545-2453822

Cool hey?

If you come across any good search syntax for google, msn or yahoo be sure to let me know.