It is official and the wait is over.  Mentioned on Yahoo’s Search Blog, the search engine’s organic search results are powered by Microsofts Bing.

So what does this mean to all the SEO experts out there?

Firstly, perhaps a ‘simpler’ method of optimisation – it is now effectively a two way battle for search engine dominance.  Yahoo/Bing vs Google.

Secondly, a valuable source of data, Yahoo’s Site explorer is lost.  Apparently this is not going to be incorporated into the system, so we will wait and see.  There are avenues around this SEO problem, for instance you can go to www.seomoz.org and use their tools or employ other tools from ranking software and backlink checkers.  Even Google’s web master tools show more link data than it used to.

Thridly, another level of excitement has been added as SEO specialists will try dig into both ‘search engines’ and try find that missing key to search engine algorithms.

Well, thats enough from me for tonight.