A difference in Yahoo Search and Google (site: operator)
When I compared search results between Google and Yahoo, trying to find a difference out between these 2 search engines (but in yahoo.co.jp and google.co.jp), “site: operator” search results in Yahoo is less friendly to search user than in Google.
I thought, when Search Engines consider a webpage (not website, since each url has own and different evaluation by search engines) as a fairly related and qualified to a keyword without any search operator, such webpage should be ranked well within the domain.
I compared search results in one of my other blogs, and I saw a very confusable search results in yahoo.co.jp when searched with and without site: (simgle domain and subdomain).
So I wanted to do a similar comparison in case of Yahoo.com vs Google.com.
1. As a single query request keyword, I will use “Compuntoes”
In Google : 1,250,000 pages in index and my blog’s page ranted at 153.
In Yahoo : 223,000 pages in Index and mine at 7.
2. Now, focused search with “site:netfirms.com Compuntoes”
In Google : 93.
In Yahoo : 334.
3. Focusing more the search with “site:www.mukom.netfirms.com Compuntoes”
In Google : 92
In Yahoo : 332.
Since “Compuntoes” is not a so high query request word, there was no difference between Yahoo and Google searched results.
Now, using a often query request word : “SEO” :
1a. “SEO”
In Google : 117,000,000 indexed pages and my blog is not in top 100.
In Yahoo : 57,600,000 pages and my blog is not in top 100.
2a. “site:netfirms.com SEO”
In Yahoo : 14,000 indexed pages and my blog is the 1st.
But, not blog homepage url :
www.mukom.netfirms.com/wp/?cat=10
The blog homepage url is not ranked in top 10.
In Google : 837 pages and my blog is the 1st.
But, not blog homepage url :
www.mukom.netfirms.com/wp/2006/05/05/a-cool-score-card
The blog homepage url is ranked : 2nd.
3a. “site:www.mukom.netfirms.com SEO”
In Yahoo : similar rankings as in 2a.
In Google : 382 and similar ranking as in 2a.
Oops, but not Oops.
Not as suspected, and not much difference in search result.
Maybe this blog is too weak with “SEO” ?
Also, tried with “Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO” ( www.mattcutts.com/blog/ ), but I could not see difference shown with site: operator as compared a blog search results between Yahoo.co.jp and Google.co.jp.
So, the diferrence I saw between yahoo.co.jp and google.co.jp was a issue related to “yahoo.co.jp” and not to Yahoo ?
Anyway, now I know which page of this blog is most realted to the word : SEO.
