Yahoo's Ugly URLs

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?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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/

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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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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)

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Yeah, those urls are redirected

 

just interested in your avatar