Re: what's a search engine? was: no-margin settings and validation

Well, I know for a fact that my site is NOT listed in yahoo's directory
because it is a commercial site and I REFUSE to pay for a listing, yet when
I did a search from their main page, my site showed up in the results. This
came directly from google, where my site IS listed.

Lisa

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Lisa Bradshaw ,  Web Designer

Crescendo Web Design - http://www.web-design-cs.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wilson" <webguroo(at)tampabay.rr.com>
To: "tim booker" <tim(at)yaffle.org>; "jim barchuk" <jb(at)jbarchuk.com>;
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>; <cbirds(at)earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: what's a search engine? was: no-margin settings and validation


>
> > Wrong.  If you go to Yahoo and use the search box on the front page, you
> are
> > searching Google's index.  The results are the same.  The page has a
> > "powered by Google" icon.  The URL of the results are
"google.yahoo.com".
>
> I don't think so.  I just did a search at Yahoo on the search box for the
> term "waterbed" and did the same at Google and the results are totally
> different.
>
> Furthermore, the Yahoo return for this search word has remained relatively
> unchanged for several years so they are using Google software to index the
> Yahoo database as the primary search tool. They chose the Google engine
> software because of speed, but rely on their own hand made database for
> data.
>

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