Yahoo! Search Blog has announced another periodic update to its ranking algorithm.

The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms. Similar to previous updates, you may notice some ranking changes and page shuffling during the process, which we expect to complete over the next few days.

Let us know how your site has responded to the update. Join the discussions at Site Explorer Suggestion Board.

Entertainment news search on Yahoo! now includes results from the Yahoo! TV portal. Yahoo! TV Shortcuts will include entire episodes, video clips, photos, show times, reviews and ratings and a lot more.

The search results page will also display suggestions related to celebrities, movies or TV shows on the left side. These suggestions will lead to more photos, videos, tweets and the latest results about the actor/show.

Whether its posting new Twitter feeds with content from Yahoo! or checking out the latest tweets from their online friends or seeing the public updates, Yahoo! will provide the users with its full access to all the twitter feeds.

Here's the list of all that you can do with this new featured venture by Yahoo!

• Read your own Twitter feeds directly from Yahoo!

Yahoo! Search Blog has announced that the algorithm update is underway.

The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms.  Similar to previous updates, you may notice some ranking changes and page shuffling during the process, which we expect to complete over the next few days.

If you have any thoughts or feedback on the update, you can visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board.

Michael Jackson hits the chart by becoming the most popular search term of 2009. The sensation of Michael Jackson is ever green and will continue for long time. The well known pop star Michael Jackson died this year but his creations and soul will always remain in the heart of his fans.

After Google and Bing  have incorporated Twitter into their search results, it is the turn of Yahoo! to go after real-time search results. The Twitter integration will be a part of the new update after News Shortcut feature will be implemented in Yahoo! Search results.

You can now easily explore the albums and songs of your favorite artist in Yahoo! Video Search. It has been seen that many visitors come to Yahoo! Video Search digging for the work of their favorite music artists. Therefore, the Yahoo! Team decided to introduce “Web of Things”, the feature that will let you explore your favorite music artists easily.

While putting an end to the recent rumors and to match its rivals, Yahoo has declared that it will test the real-time search feature in the search results. The step taken by Yahoo will enable it to provide updated, minute-to-minute Internet search results to the information seekers.

Yahoo! has filed a document with SEC saying that Microsoft failed to finalize the deal by October 27, 2009. Although, there is a statement in the document saying that progress was being made.

Here's the extract:

Yahoo! has added more detailed information to the Site Explorer, which is an amazing tool to check the number of pages of the site indexed as well as to view inbound links to the site.

Here's is the addition done by Yahoo!

Yahoo! Search Key Terms