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Nonetheless, Yahoo can afford the best search engineers in the business (if they can get them before Google does, anyway) and the patent filings shed some light on how PageRank is currently calculated and ways it might be improved in the future.

What is yahoo? we get very minimal traffic from them as compared with google even though we rank well on both. Who care what yahoo thinks or does, it all over for them in my mind.

Can the Yahoo search become relevant? I don't know. The momentum is so strong with Google I wonder if there is anything Yahoo can do to turn the tide.

We all root for the underdog at a movie but in real life we shop at Walmart and search with Google.

Rick

At Sydney clotheslines we dont care what yahoo does as we dont think they turn us any profit. Google make us lots of money but Yahoo barely registers. We are in Australia so i imagine that we have more google users than yahoo ones compared to nations like the usa. Yahoo are a thing of the past in Australia and their search results are terrible. In Australia anyway.

When there are competitors in a business, there will be no monopoly. If yahoo can make it true the soonest, it will surely be a happy news for bloggers who have need fed up with Google's PageRank update

Thanks guys. Another great article on our big bro! The future is always an unknown but at least you guys can guide us a little heads up with news from the present status quo.

Because Google thinks that leaving addresses in blogs, however useless (of course, it's not the case of this one), instead of being adding useful contents to my website, I'm here make some dumb comment only to leave a signature.

Isn't this insane?

CM

http://viajar.clix.pt

thanks ,,,,

I think in its basic stage the google PR algoritm looked something like the yahoo algorithm.

I think this needs to be implemented. They have the ability to track what links are actually clicked on - which is relevant. If they can tell if most users click back out rapidly, meaning it's a garbage webpage, then obviously that link should be ignored or devalued.

These types of systems can still be 'gamed', but it'll be harder to do - and that's a good thing.

I have no idea how Yahoo can talk about the shortcomings of the Google pagerank algo when Yahoo has a difficult time even keeping search relevant imho.

I use Yahoo as my search of choice and only use Google when I need additional info.  I liked their plans for link weight especially in regards to internal links.  I like the idea of letting my customers help determine the ranking of my internal pages. 

Google is obviously dominating the search engine world. And, I really don't see how can somebody replace them. Just look in what are they involved... They are definitely not just a search engine anymore...