I searh 4 item onYahoo and get20sitesnot even close to topic. Google+same search=exact hit time and time again
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I just tried the same search and got very different results.  I suggest that you have an internal bias. or a bone to pick.
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try clearing your search history: Tools / options\nmost toolbars have a clear recent searches.\nor if youre talking about suggestions, change your toolbar options.
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Since it sounds like Yahoo Search and Google didn't provide you a satisfactory answer. It could be:\n\n1) You might have misspelled a word that Yahoo and Google didn't "know" how to correct.\n\n2) Even though you spelled the individual words correctly, it could be that the concept was misspelled.\n\n3) Try reducing the number of words in your search and limiting it to the most important words.  If that returns too much which is 'off topic', try adding back in additional words to narrow the topic.\n\n4) Try rephrasing the search.  Substitute similar words (synonyms) or concepts and try that avenue of approach.\n\nOf course, this would all be easier if you just stated what you were searching for in the first place.\n\n---\n\nStrange that it always comes up as "lycos".\n\nAre you sure you are starting your search at http://search.yahoo.com/\n\nIf you are typing search queries into the "Address" bar at the top of Internet Explorer, it could be that your browser was supplied by someone (your ISP?) who has an affiliation with Lycos.  If this is the case, installing the Yahoo Toolbar will give you a spot for always typing in a Yahoo Search query.\n\nOne thing to consider ... there have been instances of viruses and spyware which have taken over search results on Yahoo and Google.  (I had this happen to me, however, I didn't get stuck on Lycos). The Yahoo! Toolbar may help you remove such spyware.
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you need to register it with the search engine.  After that it could takes months for it to register on the search.  Its not instant.
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My best bet is that not everone put in the same search criteria... small differences can make quite a large impact on search results...\n\nWell there could be spyware on your comp that makes it so your more targeted to advertising websites
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No problem here. You're computer is either fouling up or you have line trouble. Just go to the Yahoo home page and type in the search window Wikipedia, see what happens then.
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Try this. It is a very good search engine and it is new and it is improving:\nhttp://www.refdata.net
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Have you visited the sites recently?  Even if you've cleared history, if you still have a set number of days to keep something in the history, it will still be there.  Set the number of days to zero.  Also, have you tried clearing your cache?  this is seperate from the history or cookies.  \n\nYou might also want to make sure you clear all forms.  if you are also getting your previous serches appearing when you attempt to use search engines, this may be your problem.\n\nAlso, what are you running?  IE, firefox, are you working from an AOL browser?  that might make a little bit of difference.
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Here is a site that google and yahoo check first when it does its order.  follow the directions and you can get bumped up on the list.  Make sure you don't have your site password protected so that there crawlers can index you.\n\nhttp://www.dmoz.org/
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Try Google. I get 432 hits for detation, isn't that enough?
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no go to http://funnyjunk.com/  and  http://gotlaughs.com/
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Just use Yahoo - its the best search engine around!!!
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It depends on the search engine and the individual page.\n\nSearch results are stored in a sort of cache and aren't updated live.  The results are only updated when that page is crawled again.  With busy pages, this happens regularly, but with quieter ones, it can take absolutely ages.  There's a result on Google for my email address from over a year ago even though the page was deleted the day after it was uploaded.\n\nThere's no right answer to this one other than "however long it takes".
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looking on google usually works
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Noidea, but try a less mainstream search engine like http://www.yareeba.com or http://www.mama.com
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give it 2 weeks max, make sure you have a lot of keywords for the site. google should find it within that time, usualy when a site is born and living its life, the more sits that link to it, the more of a chance it will show up on the top of a list in a search
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on most search engines it has to get a track from a certain source..and there may be things slowing down that source...  \n\ne.g. i use bearshare and normally it only takes a few seconds but there are times when it will take days, so i find a new source