dogboy - 12:55 am on Aug 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

..... well, I just went over to Y! and typed in 'cars' into default search... and got what looks to be blended results. I then went to Positiontechs 'Pure (Inktomi) Search', Google and Yahoo Directory and did the same thing.... then I took the top 20 from each page and stripped them down to just the url.... then I went through each url to see where else it showed up in the other top 20 SERPs and color coded them so I could pick up patterns easier.

now, before you are too quick to come to conclusions, if any can be made from what I gleaned, remember that we are talking about a mega search term... it is unlikely that you will find some lame little site that somehow just popped to the top without being listed in the top 20 somewhere else.... but I found 8 like that.... granted they werent little sites, but they didnt show up in the top 20 in the other 3... however, I imagine that they are somewhere in the other 3... a site that is ranking that high in Y! is going to be somewhere in G and Ink... but here is the top 20 (where I=Ink, G=Google, D=Y! dir, and?=?) I also will put a * next to those that had cached pages (not all did) b/c they most likely came from G even though they may have been in the top 20 somewhere else

(IGD)*
(I)
(I)
(G)*
(I)
(?)
(IG)*
(?)*
(?)
(?)
(IG)*
(D)
(?)
(?)
(D)
(I)*
(?)
(D)*
(D)
(?)

... so basically there are 7 that I dont know where they came from at the moment.... if they were G, then I would assume they would have a cached page with them. So maybe they are buried, maybe from somewhere totally different