dogboy - 1:14 pm on Aug 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

>I think it is most likely we will see straight Inktomi results with Overture sponsors

thats what I would think too.... which makes me think I shouldn't think that:) Every Ink major partner has always tweaked the results, just to be different than everybody, if nothing else. but I cant imagine they would 'blend' results.

>I believe all you are seeing is the Yahoo "filter" effect that Y! has been using for several months.

well, you might be right because I don't pay attention to searches like 'cars', but the SERPs I follow are still showing G... but when I see the filter in play in my SERPs, I still recognize the majority of pages... for example, the number 6 site moved to 1, 1 moved to 4, but 2,3,5,7 are same, then 13, then 8,9,10,11 are the same, etc.... this didnt look like that to me... much bigger variation here... #3 in Y! default was #65 in G.... but maybe because we, again, are talking about a 'mega' one word term, so that might make sense. But here is another thing.... #2 in Y! default was #4 in Ink... it was listed in both as 'www.XXXX.com'.... but in Google, it was listed at #9 BUT it was listed as 'www.XXXX.com/home' which can mean the same thing to the surfer, but not to me... that result was coming from Ink, IMHO.

anyway, all I can say is that this was my read. Pure Ink would just be fine with me