David at Search Engine Roundtable Forums reports that Yahoo! has removed the directory (category) links from within the search results (directly under each search result.
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A search on google at Yahoo! Search confirms this to be true. In the past the results looked like:
Notice the category link, which links the search result directly to the category it belongs to within the Yahoo! Directory. Now that seems to be gone for all searches I tested.
Same with a search on search engine roundtable:
Old Result:
New Result:
I tried several different searches that I knew returned the category link within the listings, and all are gone. I do not know if this is on purpose, or if this is just a Yahoo! test.
Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
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rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Engine at March 26, 2007 7:11 AM
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This is actually quite sad, previously you could find more sites of similarity by it's classification.
Posted by No Name at March 26, 2007 19:01