Is UK Yahoo showing Ink?

Unconfirmed sightings

[keyplyr]

For the last couple hours, I've been seeing
Inktomi title/description for my site.

[kanama]

Im able to prove i think that they have been playing around with inktomi listings in yahoo uk.

I have a paid for inclusion with inktomi to get my site out as its new. As yet not indexed by google.

My stats shown a couple of hits from yahoo, not many mind you. This leads me to presume that if they arent from google, and im not in the yahoo directory yet then the only possible refferal from yahoo would have to be inktomi results?

cant think of any othe reasons, perhaps its just a 1 in 1000 search test to see how it copes as the traffic isnt at all great despite ranking high in other inktomi serps.

[shaadi]

I am seeing only Google results. (from India)

[Lottie]

Just been searching on our sites in Yahoo UK and it appears that they are filtering out any non-uk domain names. If you search you'll notice nothing other than co.uk's come up in the listings.

[Adam_C]

I'm not seeing this.

I'm getting all tld's - not just .uk's

And, as with pretty much everyone else, it looks like Google to me.

[percentages]

This seems to be a non-article. Yahoo.ca is news....this, at this point in time, is bogus.....how did it get on the WebmasterWorld home page?

Wake me up when .co.uk or .com is actually showing INK results please and I'll buy a round ;)

[engine]

percentages
The home page describes it as beta test.
"...cranks up the beta test on Inktomi powered results."

If you have an interest in Yahoo, you'd want to ensure you have your Ink listings prepared. ;)

[dazz]

I think its very naff that on yahoo.co.uk and search for uk listing only, all you get are .co.uk domains!

Surely they are missing out on 1000's of good URL's that are uk based!

I think it would be better to filter on hosted in the UK although even then they would miss out on quite a few.

[percentages]

engine,

I don't see it. From the US it looks like regular Google results at .co.uk. No sign of Inktomi anywhere, even on a UK only search.

Maybe they are doing some Geo specific IP tests and only showing the Ink results to those located in the UK or EU?

I see the Ink results at .ca just fine, but then they may think they should be shown to US surfers?

My Ink positions have been ready to roll since before Yahoo bought the critters.....MSN makes that worthwhile in the US.....but I would dearly love the additional traffic Yahoo will bring while Google gets it act together again.

Come on Yahoo the .ca test has run for long enough now....roll that puppy across the board!

[nicebloke]

Currently there are several different searches at Yahoo UK which are presenting forced Y! directory results with no backfill, and no 'Search Technology by Google'.

try 's*x' or 'nude' or 'boobies'

[TallTroll]

Crosses over to the image search results too. Locked out searches also claim not to be able to find any image results (which for those terms is like, impossible). The news results look different as well. None of the results pages make any reference to Google

Yahoo prepping to drop the Google feed for good?

<adeed> Oh yeah, also note that the forced directory results pages display no sponsored results. Prepping to add OV too? Funny, aren't OV having "reporting problems" at the moment? Parallel testing? </added>

[percentages]

Okay, I see some whacked out results on .co.uk now.

Anything "spicy" and short (one word) seems to go to the Y!directory....whatever....a nation who has nudes in its most popular newspapers obviously doesn't need anything non Y! approved on the net;)

Apart from those terms it all looks like Google results with Yahoo's usual slant/filters to me. No sign of anything Inktomi on that side of the pond, yet!

[Terrier]

I agree just Google results with Y directory titles, What is interesting is the filter is cutting out some of c**p that is the G serps.