Big Change in Y! SERP’S – Very Similar to G! Now!

More than 60% of the sites are same as Google results

[new_BEE]

I’m seeing very similar results in Yahoo for most of my popular $$$ in Y! similar to Google. For some searchers I find more than 60% of the sites are same as G! results.

Is any one experiencing this or is it just me? Any inputs will be appreciated

Sagara

[intelli]

Hii Even I observed the same. The listings in Yahoo are very much similar to that of Google. What's happening? Why Yahoo is showing Google results? What could be the reason?

[outland88]

You do be right. I doubt the Google results will stick long though.

[martinibuster]

Big Change in Y! SERP’S – Very Similar to G! Now!

With great respect, I have to strongly disagree.

There is a difference in the way Google and Yahoo process anchor text and other factors.

When analyzing the serps it's important to use hallmark (or "quality") searches. One search I look at is "Adobe Acrobat." This is great for studying what's going on with links, and how search engines are analyzing them.

Most links to Adobe are for the Adobe Reader. Nevertheless, a search for Adobe Acrobat should ideally turn up results for the software that creates PDF files, Adobe Acrobat.

When you search on Google, Google misses the mark within the top 20 (I didn't search beyond that). These results are worse than before.

When you search on Yahoo, Yahoo succeeds on position #3.

[outland88]

Off the topic. That's a very good price they're offering Adobe Acrobat for at the top of the Yahoo page.

[simplesoul]

well it does not seems to work the same way as google. Yahoo is fine and you can handle with the ranking and so on. Yahoo looks for site structure and even the design compatibility of the interface but not google.
Google these days start to de-index the pages so drastically, that some of the sites are no where to be seen in the search criteria

[intelli]

The results are back to normal again. I think may be yahoo is testing.

[steveb]

Wish I'd seen these results. Yahoo and Google are very different. It would be a positive sign for both though if as many as 60% of the sites they ranked were the same.

[blaze]

Maybe yahoo still has a contract with Google and they're doing a little competitive testing to see who has better results.

[new_BEE]

~~~The results are back to normal again. I think may be yahoo is testing. ~~~

I still see the new results from Asia ~ all the spam sites are out and the new index is much better than Google.

~~~well it does not seems to work the same way as google. Yahoo is fine and you can handle with the ranking and so on. Yahoo looks for site structure and even the design compatibility of the interface but not google.~~~

Most of the old school SEO sites (title, meta dis, H1, H2 kind of sites) are gone. Top SERP’S are very similar to Google’s steaming SERP’S. Most of the sites I found in new yahoo not only content rich, they look better too. For a $$$ k1 k2 k3 search the top 3 sites don’t even have the key words in the title or the text. Very much like {(steaming results) + (site structure and even the design compatibility of the interface)} for me! Can Yahoo use them?

[new_BEE]

~~~Maybe yahoo still has a contract with Google and they're doing a little competitive testing to see who has better results.~~~

I don’t think its Google results ~ SERP’S are similar to Google but not the same ~ also there’re no high ranking sites from the old index in the new Y! SERP’s

Sagara

[DaveN]

I have one site in #2 in google but was buried in Y!, so we re-optimised for G and Y! ranks #2 in both, methinks other seo's would do the same.

DaveN

[allcam]

For around 2 weeks, I see my inner pages are at the top of the search result of Yahoo, which is good because the inner pages is really more relevant to the search.

Today I find Yahoo! tried to change the results to match those of Google, but only include the home page if the Google have listed two or more pages, this end up all the previous inner pages are replaced with my homepage.

Really don't understand why Yahoo! need to copy Google's result, even at the price of sacrifice the good point in their result!