Relations between search engines

Nov 20, 2006 09:18 GMT  ·  By

Have you ever asked yourself if Google can provide Yahoo's results and vice-versa? Nobody can give an answer to this question, except the company's employees. While I was browsing the internet for a good explanation, I visited search-this.com, a website that sustains it has the answer to this questions. The webpage contains a "Relationship Chart" that will represent all relations between the most well known search engines.

If you choose Google or Yahoo you'll observe immediately that the companies have no relations between them, every search engine using its own methods for displaying results.

So, after testing the decoder, I present you the most interesting relations that were displayed. If you select Yahoo, you'll see that it receives paid results from Yahoo Search Marketing and it also gets primary search results from Altavista, Alltheweb and Dogpile. If you click on Google, it's obvious that the giant search engine doesn't receive any search results, except directory search results coming from dmoz.com. Then, you'll see that Google sends search results to Alexa, Netscape, AOL, Go.com and many others. The company also supplies with paid search results search engines like Lycos, AOL, Alexa and Netscape.

So, if you ever had any doubt related to collaboration between Google and Yahoo, now you can be sure that there isn't one and neither will there be one too soon.