Search for evil on Yahoo

Type the wod evil in Yahoo and you will get..

[derekwong28]

Search for evil on Yahoo and you will get microsoft corp returned as the first result.

However, if you do that on MSN, the results are different.

[Macguru]

More relevant than Google IMHO. :)

[your_store]

Right on Macguru..

So will Google bombing be renamed Yahoo! bombing now?

[internetheaven]

I guess that gives the game away on some of Yahoo's more important ranking factors.

It also points a very sharp finger at the irrelevance of their results. Did they make the switch to their own technology and algorithms too quickly?
I certainly think so, if I had Alltheweb and Altavista to play with I would have worked all these bugs out on there, it would have kept my Yahoo brand name a bit more impressive ...

But then again, i don't own Alltheweb or Altavista, and there might be a reason for that! ;)

[soapystar]

id have just moved alltheweb over to yahoo. The nearest thing to google IMHO. Cant believe their gonna kill it.!

[2_much]

That's interesting, thanks for posting this, obviously they're relying very heavily on anchor text. Like someone else mentioned, Yahoo's version of Google's algo, without Google's spam and over-optimization filters. Niceee.

[Scarecrow]

Look at Yahoo's number one result for "out-of-touch executives"

[freejung]

They appear to have fixed it. Now we know one way to get a fast response from Yahoo! ;-)

[Hollywood]

So what the ___ was it before the fix, now ya got me curious?

Is it the G. one?

[Hollywood]

If you search for (On Yahoo)"Worst Search Engine" the results on position one page one is MSN

Hahahah

Ummmmmm I wonder if they will ______ it?

[Mohamed_E]

They appear to have fixed it.

Just a minute ago I still got Microsoft Corporation as #1 non-sponsored result on search.yahoo.com.

Datacenters out of sync? Deja vu all over again?

[herewego]

2_much
agree with you there, searching for miserable failure also brings much as you'd expect