Did Yahoo buy Google search technology?

Yahoo results now seem to look a lot like Google results before Florida

[ILuvSrchEngines]

Yahoo search results now (since 3-19-2004) seem to look a lot like Google results used to before Florida.

Conspiracy Theory #1: Is it possible that Yahoo bought Google's search technology and that part of the deal was for Google to quit using their own page ranking system, and the Florida filter fiasco is part of the grand deal to keep the results from looking the same?

Just a thought...

[walkman]

why would Google sell their bread and butter technology to their main rival?

[exmoorbeast]

I was really thinking the same thing! The results are very strange indeed, and they either burned Google's data onto loads of DVDs or the have a near identical system.

These results are wildly different to what we were seeing last week. It's all quite exciting really, and has come at a time where we were losing our way with the big G.

I am surprised that we haven't been hearing too much noise about these serps.

[Chndru]

Well, Yahoo owns atleast 5% of Google, from AFAIK.

besides, the real test would come, when their algo is being targeted to "play with"

[willybfriendly]

I am surprised that we haven't been hearing too much noise about these serps.

It has been awfully quiet, hasn't it...

WBF

[walkman]

"Well, Yahoo owns atleast 5% of Google, from AFAIK. "
but someone else owns the other 95%. All Google has is search. If Y! sold their search technology, we'd understand because Y! has a lot more things to work on.
Not Google.

[exmoorbeast]

well Yahoo has learned a lot from working with Google, no doubt about it. Theese serps are very interesting now indeed. I'm digging around our log files to detect their bot, because if it's gonna be like this, then we are seriously up for it!

I know for a fact that we get Googlebot more times than we can handle. Does anyone have this experience with Inktomi because I would sure like to know how to build a network that attracts this little blighter on a frequent basis.

These results look almost identical to the old YaGoogle. Is that what they are?

[nkakar]

Ive lost 80% off my traffic since March 18 because Yahoo dropped all my pages. I dont know whether Im being penalized or not or whether yahoo is testing out its serps with some new technology. For the last 3 days, I havent seen my traffic go up and yahoo hasnt picked up my pages either.. dont know what to do, my category is filled with spammers, ive 3000 keywords and all of them have the same 2 companies coming up...anyone else noticed a significant change before march 18.. do u think they'll go back to the way it was before?

[EliteWeb]

Maybe they did, but think about Google and think from a another search engines perspective how well google has done ranking. Once you figure out how they do it and what ranks what the results will look similar. I see different results in Yahoo then I did with Google even then seems some keywords have like results. But that could just be because of careful disection of an existing algarythm.

[madman21]

The yahoo serps seem to be boucing back and forth. They are still backfilling with Google results. THe google results don't seem to rank well but once Yahoo picks up the site it ranks. They finally picked up one of my sites and it is ranking ok.