Both search engines have had updates taking place, with Yahoo issuing its customary "weather report" while Matt Cutts at Google discusses their latest tweaks.
We just did a PageRank export, so I wouldn't expect to see another export until the new year. The infrastructure that serves up PageRank in the Google Toolbar, link: data, info: queries, and "Similar results" is also new (surprise!). I believe that's the only piece of infrastructure I've mentioned so far that isn't deployed at every data center, and relative to the other things I've mentioned, that infrastructure is smaller. Don't expect Google to hold off on an update just because it's the holiday season and being re-ranked lower could destroy a business, though: I know that webmasters are especially sensitive to quality/webspam/ranking changes in Q4 because of the holiday season. If we've got something that evaluates well and that we think will improve quality, we can't just pause for 1/4th of the year, but if anything big launches I'll try to be available to answer questions and help get a handle on any changes. Cutts will also collect bug reports from webmasters seeing queries respond with what looks like buggy answers. He listed several Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.Google, Yahoo Offer Search Weather Reports
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