Originally posted by Bec
I'm trying to figure out why a mainstream site I webmaster for someone is showing #1 and #6 in Yahoo for her search terms, and nowhere to be seen in the first 6 pages or more on Google now ... she held #1 in almost every engine for a long time. Any ideas why high ranking on everyone else but Google -- no changes to the site, etc?
Hi Bec:

Keep in mind that the search results you see on Yahoo (which are 'Powered by Google') often are different then the results returned from a direct search on Google. The results you get on Google are the "latest edition" of their most current crawl and index.

Yahoo pulls their search results from Google, but that stuff is not as fresh. Those are Google's "official syndicated results" for other search engines. That is the stuff that's been allowed to mellow and settle down for a few days.

So it is possible that the results you are seeing now in Google will propogate over to Yahoo in a week or so. Or perhaps you are just seeing on Google your results as undigested blips. Hopefully once Google has digested this current crawl, the results will settle they way you like.

Steve