[cam]

As it turns out we have grown our index and just reached a significant milestone at Yahoo! Search – our index now provides access to over 20 billion items. While we typically don't disclose size (since we've always said that size is only one dimension of the quality of a search engine), for those who are curious this update includes just over 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files. Note that as with all index updates we are still tuning things so you’ll continue to see some fluctuation in ranking over the next few weeks.

Article on CNET

Official statement on the Yahoo blog

Not sure what this means in terms of meaningful results .. I still won't be switching from Google as my main search engine unless I hear people raving about how great Yahoo is now .

[emil]

I don't know if it's relevant in any way, but I do get more hits on my site from yahoo! and msn than google. And I did nothing to optimize it for search engines.

[pgo]

Originally Posted by emilpaun

And I did nothing to optimize it for search engines.

Except use semantic (X)HTML, proper headings, and relevant titles...right?

[emil]

Originally Posted by pgo

Except use semantic (X)HTML, proper headings, and relevant titles...right?

I meant copywriting with keywords in mind, getting relevant backlinks and things of this kind. The rest just need to be there. Anyway, I get like 2 visitors/day so it doesn't matter Most of my visitors come from here, or msn. Then comes yahoo! and sometimes google.

[Prole]

yahoo and msn, i've found, are easier to do well in than google.