I was playing with a backlinks checker earlier and stumbled upon some interesting Yahoo and Google link love facts…
Yahoo doesn’t seem to hold a grudge against their rival Google (quickly becoming everyone’s rival). Yahoo lists plenty of backlinks in its search results for google.com. Google isn’t currently returning the favor for yahoo.com. In fact Yahoo shows more backlinks for Google than Google does for itself. Surely Google caps its results.
Try directly at Google with a search like this:
For Yahoo at Google
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:yahoo.com
0 Pages
For Google itself
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:google.com
1,600,000 Pages.
Or even going to Google’s advanced search page and using their Links search,
Links – Find pages that link to the page
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Try both yahoo.com and google.com there.
Google’s backlinks are known to be only a small percentage of what are actually crawled, but 10% of ZERO is still ZERO. Given the round number 1,600,000, I’d say the results are capped.
Over at Yahoo, the results are quite different.
For Google at Yahoo
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com
Currently 17,475,629 pages.
For Yahoo at Yahoo
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com
Currently 1,675,687,898 pages. That’s 1.6 billion.
I have always defaulted to Google’s search. Originally because that was all they did. With the Yahoo Directory and all of Yahoo’s other offerings, I assumed years ago that since Google concentrated on search, their tool would be better. Now I’m wondering what I may be missing.
It is every business’ prerogative to do what works best for them. Internet search is becoming a utility though. Millions of people depend on their daily bread for traffic from these utilities. Is there anyone monitoring them?
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I don’t know how you broke Google 3 months ago, but both links DO have results…
Also, your argument that Yahoo has more subdomains than Google is rather weak… (That IS what you did, you do realize)
And Given that Google is notorious for misrepresenting its results… and expecially rounding off figures. I don’t see how having a perfect 1.6mil means anything.
I think you missed the whole point of the post. Those numbers were real at the time. So the problem was and most likely does continue to be possible for whatever reason.
As more and more people depend on their sole income from these giants, is there anybody there to keep them honest as with any other public utility.
Oh those were fine examples. But I saw some where that Matt Cutts explained that Google doesn’t show all the back links when you query with the “link:”. Its because it has to keep them open only for the site owners. But showing 0 pages is completely ridiculous