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Is everyone seeing the same, or it is only me?
Interesting.
As for the results I couldn't find any non Google serps.
Nevertheless - we should look very very carefully from now on...
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(While I was checking the Serps, Yahoo popped up a survey about shopping for books online: where I buy books online, price comparisons, features etc.)</aside>
It is google I confirmed it by searching for the terms I have targeted in google and they appear just underneath the sponsored matches in the same order as google.com
Yup you are right, however, the concern is with Google Credit that use to be on the top of the page.
I am not sure, but I smell someone else along with Google in Yahoo SERP. [if not rightaway, then soon? ]
Also, I believe one reason Yahoo would put a link to directory results is to promote their Express Submission. As when they went with Google and everybody noticed that Directory results are useless, they wanted everyone to have a reason to spend that US$ 299.00/year . I guess, they did found one.
Are you searching on Yahoo.com or on a local Yahoo?
1. Changes in SERP's - this happened about 3 weeks ago for most users.
2. De-emphasizing Google - this also came with the new SERP's and must be part of their attempt to keep users in Yahoo
3. Weird results - I've seen these occasionally, and believe them to be coming from a combination of Ink and Fast, while some that I don't recognize from any other engine.
If we could all keep our eyes open and perhaps take screen shots of the Weird SERP's, perhaps we could identify where they're coming from?
I hadn't checked those before, what have they been doing past few weeks, before today?
"Please Note: The results below are provided by the search engine Google and are not controlled by Yahoo"
As Marcia pointed out it also displays categories by default.
The Canadian results didn't changed when the .com did.
I asked the Yahoo rep about this at the Pub Conference and he said, "All of the Yahoo's act independently from each other", because of this, he also said that he had no idea what the .com was up to and that he was unaware of any plans for the .co.uk to change to the same style (he only represented .co.uk).
I think this is part of the reason why the deal was non-exclusive. Google may carry a lot of clout in most countries, but there will be others where it's probably not such a dominant force (China springs to mind).
In countries where other search engines might have a better deal of paying Yahoo more money rather than just Google, it helps to leave the door open for local negotiations to take place.
As we all know the Google dance is just finishing off, so because it's the first under this new arrangement it is likely to throw up some stranger results than normal, while it beds down.
I'll resever judgement until I've seen things return from Crazyville.
My google defaults me to the Canadian google. Could this be somehow related to the difference in results I'm getting from those of you in other countries?
Any Canadian able to confirm what I'm getting? I am starting to wonder about being the only one....
No, I don't have any french language elements. At least none that I put in intentionally.
I compared google.ca and google.com first. - exactly the same
google.com and yahoo.com
the first ten results are exactly the same, with yahoo dropping the subsite/indented listing. After the first 10 they are absolutely and completely different. I checked the first 30 but found no relation between the two sets of results.
Jatar, you say a totally different set of results: still Google then?
fr and en are the same, in this case. When looking at the yahoo serp's it doesn't have to do with having/not having a yahoo listing. It is difficult to discern whether it is just an everflux situation or a difference in the yahoo displaying of listing.
All of the strange listings are in G, they just seem to be varied amounts of buried, they just appear in the middle of the google.com listings.
I don't know if yahoo shows live listings or if they update the listing they have from G every so often.
anyone?
