It Seems To Me

Thoughts and Rants on Technology, Business and Politics

Yahoo! is now reporting my sites as the first three entries that it returns when searching for Heather Hollick. I have to assume that Yahoo! is giving priority to the keywords embedded in the web page and is correctly listing these pages high in the search results.

Unfortunately, my results in Google are still dominated by sites where my name occurs but have a higher number of links pointing to the site.

It looks like Microsoft Search returns results somewhere in the middle. My CV site, along with this blog are returned on the first page. Unfortunately, Living in London does not appear in the first few pages of their search.

Until I discovered this anomaly in Google, I used it exclusively as my search engine. Now I realize the effect of their bias: they will return the most popular sites — not necessarily the most relevant. I think I will be using Yahoo! search much more often.