Yahoo plus Bing, strange bedfellows
The news that Bing is set to become the search engine behind Yahoo is quite old now. The ten year deal between number two and three in the battle for search dominance was cut back in July this year.
There's nothing too strange about Microsoft and Yahoo doing business together on the face of it, this came a bit of a year after a failed attempt by the Seattle software hawkers to buy out Yahoo lock stock and flickr pages for a cool $44.6 Billion in change.
What is strange is the positioning of Bing search results in the Yahoo pages.
Existing Yahoo search users have made a concious effort to not....
So much for a Search Engine Race
I've just finished watching a re-run of the BBC's Top Gear. Richard Hammond took on an RAF Eurofighter in a Bugatti Veyron in one of their classically contrived races.
The Eurofighter came in first, but the Veyron wasn't too far behind. It was a race of sorts, give or take. I only wish I could say the same for my attempt at search engine spider racing.
Google came in first by a country mile, with a complete indexing done in about 84 hours. We're 10 days, a full 240 hours, into the race now...
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Bing and Yahoo slow off the mark
Well, in my humble opinion it’s been a very poor showing from Bing and Yahoo in my search engine race so far. Google has now spidered, and indexed pretty much the whole site, but Bing and Yahoo have failed to fully index even the home page despite visiting the site a couple of times.
Yahoo is coming in runner-up as it has made a start on the process, with their site explorer showing the new <title> tag from the site. That’s a clear step up from Bing which still shows URL’s which have not functioned on the site for a number of years.
Searching for site:trash.co.nz on Google shows me 35 listings, which includes...
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