Technical Approach of an Old Wisdom…

Google Web Spam lead Matt Cutts draws mixed reactions in his post regarding their search quality results. This has been in relation to several complaints that Google is not doing enough in handling spam more specifically serving low-quality content farms in its result pages. Rand Fishkin also posted early December about anchor text spam and how the Google team is blindsidedly doing nothing about it.  

Of course you could game Google Rankings, but the question is, how do you play it without anybody noticing? The winner is he who plays the game discreetly…   - Jim Rey

Yahoo has been implementing some very major changes on its search architecture starting this week — Yahoo search in North America is now powered by Bing. This is in part of Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance 10 year deal which was closed last July 29, 2009 to take on search giant Google.

Yahoo Linkdomain query not working

I havent heard any news lately about Yahoo and Bing partnership, until one of my search queries which I mainly depended on for gathering prospect edu/gov links were not working in Yahoo! Search US just of today.

1. linkdomain:competingsite.com +site:.edu -site:.com -site:competingsite.com
2. linkdomain:competingsite.com +site:.gov -site:.com -site:competingsite.com

If you enter the above queries in http://search.yahoo.com and http://ca.search.yahoo.com, no results will be found. Take notice of the “Powered By Bing” text on the footer section for each result page.