potentialgeek
11-12-2005, 02:51 AM
I'm in the top five on Google for a popular single word search. I'm not even in the top 100 on yahoo.com!! WTF? I'm even in one of the yahoo directories; no help there.
I remember a few years ago when Yahoo was powered by Google; then I had top 5 on Google and Yahoo, basically the same ranking as Google.
AOL search was also powered by Google, and I had high ranking on them, too. It was odd because it seemed to make the other engines besides Google redundant; maybe Yahoo and AOL finally figured it out. It was like AOL and Yahoo asked, "Who's your daddy? Google."
Who f'd up the Yahoo algorithm? There's a ton of junk, useless results it spews out, which hardly anyone is going to visit. My site is not the only decent one that's ignored by yahoo. It trashes good ones Google likes and elevates crap.
What a joke. No wonder yahoo has so little market share. They can't hold a candle to Google, and they were around years ahead of Goggle.
Remember when Overture (before that, "go.com"?) was all the rage, the pay-per-click search engine. They got that off the ground. It's ironic that Google took that idea and overture fell by the wayside, eventually taken by Yahoo. For spare parts? :p
Google seems to make much wiser purchases. Getting deja.com, the entire usenet archive, was brilliant. Now they can serve up their Ads everywhere all the time. And that investment was long before they went public.
The map site/software Google Earth was also an excellent idea. News reports often use it and promote the Google brand. Google leaders are smarter.
I've long since stopped using Yahoo as a search engine. What do they offer that Google doesn't already have and have better? When was the last time Yahoo had an original idea? 1995?
p/g
"These days to save my sanity my philosophy is to concentrate my efforts primarily on Google and just accept what traffic I get from Yahoo as a bonus." Source (http://forums.seochat.com/archive/t-14198)
I remember a few years ago when Yahoo was powered by Google; then I had top 5 on Google and Yahoo, basically the same ranking as Google.
AOL search was also powered by Google, and I had high ranking on them, too. It was odd because it seemed to make the other engines besides Google redundant; maybe Yahoo and AOL finally figured it out. It was like AOL and Yahoo asked, "Who's your daddy? Google."
Who f'd up the Yahoo algorithm? There's a ton of junk, useless results it spews out, which hardly anyone is going to visit. My site is not the only decent one that's ignored by yahoo. It trashes good ones Google likes and elevates crap.
What a joke. No wonder yahoo has so little market share. They can't hold a candle to Google, and they were around years ahead of Goggle.
Remember when Overture (before that, "go.com"?) was all the rage, the pay-per-click search engine. They got that off the ground. It's ironic that Google took that idea and overture fell by the wayside, eventually taken by Yahoo. For spare parts? :p
Google seems to make much wiser purchases. Getting deja.com, the entire usenet archive, was brilliant. Now they can serve up their Ads everywhere all the time. And that investment was long before they went public.
The map site/software Google Earth was also an excellent idea. News reports often use it and promote the Google brand. Google leaders are smarter.
I've long since stopped using Yahoo as a search engine. What do they offer that Google doesn't already have and have better? When was the last time Yahoo had an original idea? 1995?
p/g
"These days to save my sanity my philosophy is to concentrate my efforts primarily on Google and just accept what traffic I get from Yahoo as a bonus." Source (http://forums.seochat.com/archive/t-14198)