Google falls for Yahoo!

Eric Rumsey at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, has written a nifty report on Google and Yahoo!. He says he has found solid evidence that Google\’s new alliances, especially the pact with Yahoo! that was announced in June, seem to have compromised its ability to find directories.

More to the story from google and slashdot, read on….

Eric Rumsey at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, has written a nifty report on Google and Yahoo!. He says he has found solid evidence that Google\’s new alliances, especially the pact with Yahoo! that was announced in June, seem to have compromised its ability to find directories.

More to the story from google and slashdot, read on….This was just posted on Slashdot

After yesterday\’s story about google favoring Yahoo links, I got word from Sergey Brin from google. He says that the reason that the site tested showed so poorly is that a robots.txt file prevented Google\’s crawler from fully indexing the site. The robots.txt file has since disappeared, and the next index should show a change in the rankings