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Yahoo Blog Search: Compression?

In: smp

11 Oct 2005

I guess bandwidth doesn’t matter to Yahoo. They don’t use gzip/HTTP compression any more.

Ok, not completely true. It’s there on the Portal Page. But nowhere else.

<sigh>

I give up.

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Yahoo! has rarely ever used GZIP. In fact, this is the first time I’ve heard that they do.

Yahoo! has rarely ever used GZIP. In fact, this is the first time I’ve heard that they do.

Stephen Pierzchala is one of a 10-year veteran of the Web performance field who also writes on topics that interest his non-linear world-view.