Comments on: Did Yahoo! Block Google From Crawling Delicious Bookmarks?

By: Farhad Divecha

Farhad Divecha — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:51:53 +0000

We've put up a post on our site just to explain why this is actually wrong:

http://www.accuracast.com/search-daily-news/seo-7471/false-reports-about-yahoo-blocking-googlebot-on-delicious/

By: sandor

sandor — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:04:52 +0000

As a seocontest2008 participant I am very interested about the social bookmarking issues.
Your news about Yahoo's new move about del.icio.us are really intriguing. Thank you very much for such valuable information. I can't do much about Yahoo's politics, I only have the power of choice to use or not to use del.icio.us services. For the present seocontest2008 purpose I am interested to gain good position on Google, and not on other search engines. If Yahoo has begun to make use of its powers from blocking other search engines from taking advantage from spidering the information contained therein, then I probably will not be interested to use Yahoo's social bookmarking services, hence there are so many other options available.

By: Farhad Divecha

Farhad Divecha — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:06:44 +0000

The directories being blocked are not important for search and should not get spidered by Google.

E.g. Google does not need to spider the "post a new url" page.

The actual link pages for all users are still spiderable. Of course, as Steve notes, they include rel="nofollow", and so are of little use to Google.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:14:45 +0000

Who cares if delicious will block google or not?

In case you never noticed, all Bookmarks added to delicious have rel="nofollow" set in them,
meaning Google wont/cant/shouldn't use delicous bookmarks to "discover" new sites to index.

By: Christian Del Monte

Christian Del Monte — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:31:02 +0000

Hi There Navneet,
I just wanted to add two cents of something i noticed over the weekend as well. I did some searching on Yahoo on Sunday (over the same time period) and noticed that Yahoo was inserting the number of delicious "bookmarks" into their search results. For example, when i did a search for "business blogs"…i noticed that some listings actually had the number of bookmarks in delicious by their listing. So o think its fair to say that they have been experimenting in feeding delicious bookmarks into their search results to offer more comprehensive search results….much like Google's universal search. However i noted that our site "iBlogbusiness.com" (which has several delicious bookmarks) did not have the little icon by the search results. So im not sure how they are determining who they show the bookmark icon to at the moment, but it will be interesting to see what yahoo decides to roll out:)

Best Regards,

Christian