Yahoo and Google seem to be diverging

simonm · #1 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 12:19 PM

Over the last few years I have seen one sure thing. If you do well with Google, you do equally well with Yahoo - fairly obvious as Yahoo takes its main results from Google. Thus a search for "XYZ" which comes 23rd on Google will come 23rd on Yahoo, the difference being the sponsored sites at the top and base of the Yahoo pages.

That still holds true for my sites that have been around a while, however the newer sites seem to progress further and faster with Yahoo!

In one particular case "drinking Water", my site http://www.drinking-water.co.uk is 2nd on a Yahoo.co.uk UK search while I have dropped completely from Google.co.uk (UK only) for that search term!

Adding a word "services" that identifies my site, I get to be No1 on both Google.co.uk (UK only) and .com so it is unlikley to be a case that I have been dropped by Google for any assumed dodgy SEO on my part. This isn't the only instance I have noticed for a newer web site.

rlrouse · #2 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 12:33 PM

Yahoo and Google will be diverging at some point as Yahoo has made plans and aquisitions toward the goal of moving to their own crawler-based search results.

awall19 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 08:52 PM

Yahoo is powered of a Google feed. As google makes changes to its servers it can not be certain how old the Yahoo feed is.

rlrouse · #4 (**permalink**) 11-24-2003, 09:46 PM

Quote:

Yahoo is powered of a Google feed.

Yes, but this will change before too long.

simonm · #5 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 04:51 AM

What I am seeing is happening in the here and now and surely not based on the relationship that Yahoo and Google will have in the future. More than that, the effect is one of Yahoo being both ahead of Google showing what I would judge to be both more relevant results and clearly of a Google nature.

withouraloha · #6 (**permalink**) 11-25-2003, 04:57 PM

Yahoo as of yesterday, was still showing the google search results from before google messed up their listings with irrelevant results.

This made Yahoo results a month old, but still better results than the google results.

Today, Yahoo is showing the listings from the first round of messed up google results, but not yet the results that are currently showing on the google.com page.

I think Yahoo just is not taking an immediate feed for results... they are a few days behind and will catch up to being just as irrelevant as google in the very near future.

Cyber Gypsy · #7 (**permalink**) 12-01-2003, 03:49 AM

Yes I have noticed these past few days that Google has rearranged everything and is turning up irrelevant searches. Could this be their demise? DMOZ is a major player but their results aren't usually on target. Does anyone know what is going on?

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mm99 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-01-2003, 09:23 PM

It looks like goog and yah have now parted. The listings don't look the same at all. None of my listings that I noticed were the same as they were. We'll have to see what happens...

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janeth · #9 (**permalink**) 12-02-2003, 12:32 AM

Yahoo is still following Google just give them a couple days there be just as bad as the one Google has.