Bing Vs Yahoo Rankings
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I was under the impression that Bing powers yahoo search. However, I am recieving a large difference in ranking on some keywords in the two engines.
Can anyone ask what or why this is happening?
Thanks,
Brandon
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Thanks for the quick reply. Any idea on what the different factors are as my rankings in Google and Bing are strong on many keywords but declining in Yahoo?
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Yahoo and Bing both use the same Index, that's the portion that yahoo has licensed from bing.
As far as the ranking algorithm is concerned, yahoo uses a large amount of bing's algo, but they have built (or are going to build) a customization layer on top of the bing algorithm to change how different metrics are weighted.
Yahoo's results could differ drastically from Bing results based on the fact that they weight metrics differently.
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