Misunderstandings with yahoo and google

June 10th, 2009, 7:32 am

Hello,

anybody could tell my why google operators (like site:, link: and etc..) show different quantities than yahoo...

June 10th, 2009, 2:11 pm

The simple answer is it's the way the bot it written.

[joebert]

June 11th, 2009, 5:56 am

Find two colorblind people, one who can not see green and another who sees only black and white.

Ask them both to count the number of dots on a green screen with various shades of red and green dots on it.

Both of them will give you different numbers and both of them will be wrong.

Search engines work like eyes, not all of them see the same things.

June 13th, 2009, 2:03 am

Yahoo and Google are two separately running search engines having completely different working and searching algorithms.

Although some features like scanning the web pages contents and looking at the number of links can be part of their algos, but their ranking formulas are definitely not like each other.

June 14th, 2009, 10:52 pm

Google and Yahoo do not have the same results. It's normal. Having a page indexed in Google doesn't guarantee the same thing for Yahoo.

August 19th, 2009, 11:34 pm

of course the different results which use different operators in two different search engine.

August 20th, 2009, 11:45 pm

Google and Yahoo have different working and searching algoriythms. Google focus on semantic analysis and link ,but Yahoo focus on title and H1,H2,H3.
Google update faster than Yahoo.