Originally Posted by Lindy
Searching for Aiyon -okada in Yahoo! (-okada as there's some famous person called Okada Aiyon, apparently)...
1. Aiyon Forums (index)
2. Aiyon Forums (Aiyon forum category)
3. Aiyon Forums (announcements)
4. Aiyon Forums (memberlist)
5. vBulletin Forums (thread I posted links in)
6. the Gamer's Alliance (the footer has a redirect to Aiyon)
7. the Gamer's Alliance (the footer has a redirect to Aiyon)
8. Some irrelevant site.
9. vBulletin Forums (my profile)
10. Some irrelevant site.
also...
13. the Gamer's Alliance (the footer has a redirect to Aiyon)
19. Bleys' LiveJournal
23. Animeglobe (mentioned in a thread by an Aiyon member)
24. LokiNeko (link at Baloki's site)
26. Animeglobe (mentioned in a thread by an Aiyon member)
32. Bleys' LiveJournal
75. delmurder.com (Del Murder's links page)
Nothing from EoFF!
Searching for Aiyon -okada (English Pages only) in Google (-okada as there's some famous person called Okada Aiyon, apparently)...
1. aiyon.com/forums/ (It doesn't even use the page title)
2. Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums (my profile)
3. Some irrelevant site.
4. Some irrelevant site.
5. Some irrelevant non-English site.
6. Some irrelevant site.
7. Some irrelevant site.
8. vBulletin (links page)
9. CricketWeb Forums (thread I linked Aiyon in)
10. Some irrelevant site.
also...
13. the Gamer's Alliance (the footer has a redirect to Aiyon)
15. vBulletin (thread I linked Aiyon in)
19. Aiyon Forums (vB code explanation page)
21. AnimeGlobe (mentioned in a thread by an Aiyon member)
22. AnimeGlobe (mentioned in a thread by an Aiyon member)
25. Eyes off Final Fantasy (mentioned in a thread by an Aiyon member, even though EoffFF is long dead)
26. Eyes off Final Fantasy (mentioned in a thread by an Aiyon member, even though EoffFF is long dead)
27. Some stats page showing that someone linked to a site at Aiyon.
28. The Man's LiveJournal
29. Some irrelevant site.
31. My LiveJournal userinfo page.
32. Calypso-Sarah's LiveJournal
Conclusion: Yahoo! is far more up to date than Google is and tends to put more relevant sites nearer to the top, while Google goes by how large the site is (some of the highest results were mere mentionings of the word on massive sites). Google and Yahoo! both completely missed some results the other engines were able to get - Yahoo! doesn't have Eyes on Final Fantasy (nor EoffFF, although that's a dead site now so it's actually good that they don't have it). Google didn't have the more recent pages such as Del Murder's and Baloki's, confirming that Google is not that up to date. Yahoo! had more results overall (80 or so) while Google's results were often foreign sites regardless of me asking for English sites only.
Summary: This is why I search for sites using Yahoo! - although I still search for images using Google, at least for now. I've also noticed that Yahoo! spiders are around EoFF, Aiyon and the like a hell of a lot more often than Google spiders are. MSN is also really active lately, although I won't try their search engine because I don't like MSN and Yahoo! has never really failed me.
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