While the completion of the web results switchover hasn't been officially announced as 100% complete to this point, Yahoo search results are (for most) now being "Powered by Bing" using their crawl of the web and their search technology. To say the same thing in different terms, the organic web results (aka the 10 blue links on search results pages) now come via Bing.
Or, if you prefer, Yahoo is no longer crawling the web and creating their own databases.
Keep an eye out for the “Powered by Bing” indicator at the bottom of our search results page, which will indicate that you are viewing listings from Microsoft. And of course, as we’ve stated before, you’ll continue to enjoy the same enhanced Yahoo! experience that surrounds the listings themselves – such as rich results, Search Assist suggestions, site filters, related topic suggestions, and more to come.
So, if you run a search like this one or this one you should see (or soon will see) "Powered by Bing" at the very bottom of the page. While there might be some slight variations due to a number of factors the actual results are for the most part identical.
The added features each engine provides and the layout of the results page remain unique to each service.
As Search Engine Land reported last September, and as you'll notice if you run an image or video search they are also powered by Bing. News Search remains separate, at least for now. We hope that Bing does some weeding and rebuilding and uses the Yahoo news database as the core for a new and hopefully improved news database for Bing to power.
In order to align our resources on strategic priorities, we have decided to close the SearchMonkey developer tool, gallery, and app preferences on October 1, 2010. As a result, third party custom result apps, infobar apps, and data services will no longer appear on Yahoo!’s search results.
So, another unique web database is no more. For the time being we are left with a few large web databases:
+ Google
+ Bing
+ Ask
+ Yandex.com
(English Version of Popular Russian Engine)
+ We also need to mention a one person operation who is doing great work at DuckDuckGo.com and of course, not a web engine in any sort of traditional sense but a web resource of curated data that is only getting better, Wolfram|Alpha.
In Terms of Imagery:
+ All of the Above But Yandex
+ Also Finding Similar Images By Seeding with a Similar Image
++ LookThatUp.com;
++ GozoPa
GozoPa also offers keyword search.
+ To be honest, we've been big fans of Bing's image and video search for some time.
In Terms of Video:
Several (we will do another post) but for television shows, web only programs, live video streams, etc., Clicker is a great place to start (U.S. only).
A new large web database named Blekko is currently in private beta. We'll talk more about it next week. In the mean time, if you have a chance this weekend find a few articles about the service and next week we will give out some logins to the closed beta.
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