Tim Mayer of Yahoo mentioned it in the meet the crawlers session as SES Chicago. He said, "they launched a new index Tuesday night, so you might see some changes." And you bet, people have been noticing some serious changes. Quick guess, I think they are putting a bit more weight towards linkage data then they did a week ago.
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