Stacey wrote:
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
> d2nem1$2csk$2@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk">news:d2nem1$2csk$2@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
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> <snip>
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>>> Yahoo, Alltheweb, Altavista (AFAICR the last two take them from
>>> Yahoo, but they are never identical anyway)
>>>
>>> I also lost about 300 from msn as well
>>
>> These are not as reliable as Google so I would not worry about it. I
>> still see Yahoo making many mistakes (bugs) when crawling and MSN sorts
>> results quite oddly. Do you have statistics to show how many visitors
>> come from the
>> search engines which you mentioned?
>
> I seen just recently on Yahoo that there are a lot of spam sites in a
> couple of my SERP's. These spam sites appear to be owned by the same
> person as they all kind of look a like in a way. So, to me Yahoo is crap
> compared to Google's results.
>
> Stacey
The reason why I asked Paul that question: taking last month's statistics
from my main site...
Googlebot: 10663+153 Hits, 145.45 MB Bandwidth
Yahoo (Inktomi Slurp): 8252+2353 Hits, 98.82 MB Bandwidth
All that Yahoo did was mess up my error logs. In terms of _results_
(visitors):
- Google: 9331
- Yahoo: 313
So if I were in Paul's shoes, I would cease to consider Yahoo a factor.
It's making a lot of noise, but no cigar.
Roy
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