Noticed today that Yahoo decided to drop the arrows in the page titles of their search results (Google did this a little over a year ago if my memory serves me correctly). MSN still allows, it but I bet it will follow suit and drop them soon too.
Hrmmm... Could you perhaps elaborate a little on this topic please. I really have no idea what this is about - maybe I've overlooked something that was starring me in my face? (yeah.. I'm referrering to arrows in page titles)
I think it attracts attention to the listing? I know on some google searches you get those with a sun thingy in the front. Gets my eye there right away, even if its not #1
Yeah... the tricky thing about the arrow though is it doesn't require unicode to be installed (which isn't installed by default with Windows). All the other trick characters do.
I'm still seeing arrows (and other stuff) for #1 entry returned from this Yahoo Search (and also MSN Search)for the longest car! ;-) Maybe I'm looking at a different data center (?)
I think they just are paying proper "respect" to my Delta 88 Oldsmobile Convertible ... aka the Hulkmobile! ;-) P.S. Yea, something inconsistant going on here - assuming I got the same Yahoo Data Center, this Yahoo Search doesn't show the "Halloweenie" things on that page, whereas MSN still does.
google was letting it in if it wasn't the first character in the title for a couple weeks, now its gone again
I normally avoid sites with special characters... too spammy for me. But from a technical point of view, I would think that the standalone characters are treated as words and therefore would substantially reduce kw density. However, since these sites are acheiving #1 spots, logic would dictate that they don't really have much effect on density. So, are special chars treated as stop words?
I would say those character have increased my income by more then a thousand a month either that or its a slow day