I have seen recently a number of sites doing OK in Yahoo and not listed at all in Google. When searching for backlinks, I usually find none --- so I puzzeled why they are even listed in Yahoo, let alone ranking OK.

Here is another site I recently found the same for: www.surproperties.com (they have had ok yahoo rank for a while and no in Google and have no links)

In Google, newly found sites can sometimes get an initial artificial boost in the rankings (used to be called 'everflux' or 'freshbot effect'). I have seen nothing mentioned or written by anyone about Yahoo - BUT, given these recent eg's I can not help but wonder if Yahoo give new sites a similar artifical boost??? (perhaps for several months). How new is the site?

As far as I know Yahoo have not changed the algorithm and links has always been as important as they were.

Maybe someone else can shed some light on this.

CBP