Yahoo.ca vs Yahoo.com search results

Why the difference?

[Umbra]

Search results for Yahoo.com are pretty decent, but when you visit Yahoo.ca and search the Web search OR search pages from Canada, the results are competely different and absolutely horrible. Why is that?

[robotsdobetter]

When you search at yahoo.ca it's post to show Canada web site's, but you don't have to have it that way.

[Tim]

Umbra what do you mean by horrible. Irrelevant or just Canadian focused results? I would be interested to hear.
Tim

[Larryhat]

Hello all of youse:

I have a UFO related non-commercial site.

I called up Yahoo.ca and had two options.
1) All the web
2) Yahoo Canada.

Looking for my site in (1) I found it just where I
expected to, around #26 out of 4.3 million sites, the same as Yahoo.com.

Looking in (2) I was lost in space. I gave up somewhere in the hundreds.

As a counter test, I tried "bacon" instead of UFO.
I lost track of the numbers because of some German Bier (and a bad cold) when it occurred to me that I overlooked something.

Canadian bacon is very different from bacon.com

US bacon is called 'streaky' by some folks, while the Canadian kind is suspiciously like thinly sliced ham, but at twice the price, more nutritious and less fatty.

Further, the Canadian results were full of literary references (William Bacon, Roger Bacon) while greasier US results were more often associated with eggs.

Yahoo.ca may have omitted my California UFO website, but at least they are easier on the waistline.

Best wishes - Larry

[Umbra]

Robotsdobetter, for this particular competitive keyword (and perhaps others, I haven't had a chance to check yet) Yahoo.ca's Web Search shows completely different SERPS than Yahoo.com's Web Search. Additionally, for this particular keyword, the SERPs are exactly the same for the Web Search AND Canadian search on Yahoo.ca.

Tim, by "horrible", I meant a) less relevant and b) more French language pages. It seems to be an entirely different algorithm with the Canadian search, with a completely different set of SERPs. The inclusion of French pages is understandable considering that Canada is a bilingual country (French & English), except that there is another site for French Canadians (cf.yahoo.com) AND it's not understandable why the exact same results show in the regular Web Search (at least for this keyword)!

[otech]

i have a similar story with yahoo.com.au, my site is australian, but only shows on yahoo.com!

When using yahoo.com.au, its like a different index for both local and web searches vs yahoo.com...

[makemetop]

>my site is australian..

A .com or a .com.au?

Yahoo (and MSN) Australia favour the latter.

[otech]

.com.au!

thats what i cant figure, but i think it might have something to do with yahoo letting me see some of my google stuff in there.....

when i search site:mydomain.com.au i get 1 page showing, but when i search www.mydomain.com.au i get 700 pages... all identical to google, and yahoo hasnt deep crawled my site..