Comments on: Searching for WWW 2006

By: Dog Jones

Dog Jones — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:51:15 +0000

Yeah now type www in Yahoo. What do you get? http://www.cjb.net Why? Probably due to sponsors appearing in the normal listing. Very naughty yahoo!

By: Michael Ahumibe

Michael Ahumibe — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:30:59 +0000

Why edit results just to make them look more pleasing? Doesn’t it just hi light the flaw in the search algorithm?

By: Chris in Alaska

Chris in Alaska — Thu, 25 May 2006 09:00:42 +0000

I wonder if, due to Google’s PageRank feature, searching for “www” on Google is really more or less determining what the most popular websites (or at least the most popularly-visited via Google) are. For Yahoo! to be the #1 website is really an achievement! Congratulations!

By: Anamorata

Anamorata — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:59:55 +0000

Also, it’s a little funny that web results #1 and #2 are for the WWW conference, #3 is http://WWW.com, and the rest are just totally random (hotmail, free mp3s, proboards.com, microsoft). Why are those relevant
to this query, why is proboards better than microsoft. And #1/#2/#3 look rather suspiciously out
of place in this random heap …

By: Anamorata

Anamorata — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:48:12 +0000

I also get an “Also try these queries”, 3 irrelevant ads, 3 news results, and a mysterious myweb result above the web results which are way way down the page …

By: search-engines-web.com

search-engines-web.com — Thu, 25 May 2006 03:22:25 +0000

So, is it safe to assume that these papers give insights into plans for upcoming Yahoo
Search Algos