Yahoo's Ugly URLs

[xtreme fever]

I have been wondering for some time now as to why when you mouse over a link on Yahoo, why is the URL so ugly?

[lifeplayer]

url is ugly? I dont think so, it is fine for me

[wptheme]

I don't understand. A screenshot maybe to show what you mean.

[grandllama]

Wow, that's crazy. On the old homepage most are standard SEO permalinks. On the new homepage those things are a nightmare, and they are everywhere.

[Professional Dude]

Yea, I have noticed those urls, but all of those ugly one's redirect.

[Oranges]

I think they are working on seo friendly urls, As they recently update their Home page look, May be because of that it happned.

[Bohra]

You mean links like http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=digitalpoint looks quite neat

[Chuckun]

what he means is the URLs of the results... ie;

http://in.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oG75cugXJKNz4Ale27HAx.;_ylu=X3oDMTBybnZlZnRlBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=11jjbegp0/EXP=1249104558/**http%3a//www.digital-point.co.uk/

Google do this too, only they sneakily send out bogus status bar readings... in firefox, mousover a google result, watch your status bar, then right click it... Their URLs are just as ugly ;)

It's all about collecting search data and statistics :)

[FifthDimension]

They are probably in the process of changing the URLs into SEO friendly ones. I guess you mean long with many parameters when you mean the URLs are not neat.

[wptheme]

what he means is the URLs of the results... ie;

http://in.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oG75cugXJKNz4Ale27HAx.;_ylu=X3oDMTBybnZlZnRlBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=11jjbegp0/EXP=1249104558/**http%3a//www.digital-point.co.uk/

Google do this too, only they sneakily send out bogus status bar readings... in firefox, mousover a google result, watch your status bar, then right click it... Their URLs are just as ugly ;)

It's all about collecting search data and statistics :)


I see. I don't see any difference with Google doing the same. Bing.com however has a direct link to your website people , so everyone move to bing now :D:D

[24hscripts]

Heh, for Yahoo or Google we are statistics, no wonder there are ugly urls :))

[dairyman]

I see. I don't see any difference with Google doing the same. Bing.com however has a direct link to your website people , so everyone move to bing now :D:D

That could be one of the reasons for the growing popularity of bing. :)

[munnaaa]

well,
for me its fine...
i dont use yahoo either..
so nothing matter for me :D
nothing personal all is business/

[wptheme]

That could be one of the reasons for the growing popularity of bing. :)

Lol.. thats possible but unlikely as other than experienced webmasters other won't really care or even worse notice. :D

[metros]

Yeah I agree, I really don't understand why they use those weirdo url's and than redirect.. I mean, It is good to redirect some content if needed, But whole site? I mean, They risk that part of the content wont be indexed (As spiders timeout most of times)

[jezzz]

Yeah! link redirection looks really bad... only technical person may get to know proper redirection process

[gbit]

The ugly url contains encoded data about search stat and details, that's why they are ugly!
I don't care about it as I have nothing to do with it.

[Alahad]

i dont think these are ugli links ... i think u have different Taste

[kacangijo]

Yeah, those urls are redirected

[cvscouponb]

Wow, that's crazy. On the old homepage most are standard SEO permalinks. On the new homepage those things are a nightmare, and they are everywhere.

just interested in your avatar
:D

[cvscouponb]

but still , why the links are ugly? i can see your point?

[jz400]

what do you mean friend??