There seems to be a Yahoo Search update taking place now. A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around the update. We do not have official confirmation from the Yahoo Search Blog yet, but we didn’t have confirmation the last update either.

The first report came in early yesterday morning and since then, many others confirmed seeing an update as well. Let me pull out the key findings from the thread:

Link counts may have droppedSome are reporting canonical issuesOne person reported “different titles and descriptions for singular vs. plural of my main keyword. It’s the same URL, so kind of odd.”

Why did Yahoo not announce this update? Well, maybe they will today or tomorrow. But the Yahoo Search Japan blog announced it the other day. It translates to:

The last update was a small hiccup on February 9th but a larger update was on or around January 19th.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Update: We helped coerce Yahoo to post weather updates again.