A Puzzlement !!

Directory Entry vs Google Results

[austtr]

A new client has a site www:newclient.com. If I do a Yahoo search for the word newclient, it shows results that are "powered by Google". It does not show any reference to a find from its own categories.

Yet the site is in a Yahoo category... I have seen it with my own eyes.

I am puzzled as to why Yahoo offers me a "websites found" result from Google when it already has the site in its own categories.

Can anyone enlighten me?

[Brett_Tabke]

I'm not sure where the cutoff is there, but if only one result is found, more-than-likely it tends to show the Google results.

I'm curious too if anyone has a definitive answer for this?

[2_much]

I think it's a bug in Yahoo's database.

If you search by domain Yahoo usually returns that result.

About 4 months ago, I noticed that there were sites listed that don't come up when you search for them in the search box. I have quite a few sites to which this happens (about 30).

Although I checked and checked and emailed Yahoo, I was never able to determine why this happens. Sometimes these sites even rank well for keyword searches, but don't show up if you search for the domain.

Anybody know anything?

[web_india]

Hi all,

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I am not sure, 2_much, but I think that this is not a bug and yahoo has purposefully modified it (what purpose I don't know). Anyone agrees?
One of my client's competitors had a very good ranking for few search term variations at yahoo. On closer look, I found out that he had his directory listing in two categories - one in main and other in regional. But on doing a search for his domain, yahoo showed only the regional directory listing and not the main one.
So I suppose when you have a listing in regional, it does show the directory listing in searches and not when you are in the main.
So austtr, can you confirm that your directory listing is not in regional yahoo?

Thanks

[austtr]

My original post is misleading... I got confused by the Yahoo navigation/terminology and went off half-cocked. Apologies.

In Yahoo speak a category is an "above the line" item which has further sub-sets below it, but may also have its own sites.. eg:

Sports (377)
Travel and Transportation (772)
Lodging@
etc etc

Well, the site in question is not in one of these so when the search results show nothing found in "Category matches", that is quite correct.

When you drill down to where the site is located, note the heading becomes "Site Listings". So when a search shows a result in "Web Site Matches" it will also show the path down to the specific "Site Listings" where the site is located.

It is only when Yahoo does not have the site that it goes to Google for results.

I suspect most folks know this ...