Bobby - 8:30 pm on Sep 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

Well, the portal has a PR of 8 compared to a PR of 5 for our site, but such a specific search should definately bring up our site first.

On closer analysis it is the portal which is deliberately repeating the title tags throughout the page, much the way Amazon might do so.

A site:bigportal.com search in Yahoo results in over 18 million pages indexed. I don't believe it. Google lists 600,000 which is much more realistic.

In any event we may soon find that these big portals with their dynamically generated pages structured to copy title tags of smaller "reviewed sites" will eventually replace the sites themselves.

As I noted in my previous post this is not the first time I've seen this happen.

It seems to me that if Yahoo honestly cares about its search results then it should filter out the portal unless the search string includes "reviews" or something similar.