Yahoo Search Removes Numbers on Search Results

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December 17, 2007

Yahoo Search Removes Numbers on Search Results

In the old days, if you conducted a search at Yahoo Search, Yahoo would automatically number the results for you. So of the 10 listing, Yahoo would display the rank number on the left of the result.

Here is an example of that in action for a search on google at Yahoo:

Now, the same search, does not display the numbers:

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posted rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Engine at December 17, 2007 8:54 AM Comments (5)

Comments

So now it's "Top-ish" rank.

Posted by Scott Clark at December 17, 2007 13:25

You can download the latest version of serp easy surf(Firefox add-on) and it will give you the numbers of the search results in Yahoo. http://serp-easy-surf.seoquake.com/
Thanks to Gleb from SeoQuake for doing this.
(It also gives you numbers for Google and MSN)

Posted by Avromi Sommers at December 20, 2007 09:47

Since they stopped numbering, I just use Google . . .

Posted by jsiloman at December 24, 2007 02:15

serp=easy says it doesn't work for Yahoo. Why the heck would Yahoo do this? I thought they had overtaken Google in popularity . .

Posted by sharonlerose at December 24, 2007 02:17

You can use the Firefox add-on to show Yahoo numbered results:
http://www.bal4.co.uk/2008/05/15/numbered-yahoo-results-firefox-greasemonkey-user-script/

Posted by stebal4 at May 17, 2008 07:52