Funny. This week I got a bunch of hits to my pictures from last year's mather airshow whereas last week I got none. Okay, easy enough, this weekend is this year's airshow, makes sense. Weird part was that -all- of the hits were from Yahoo...not Google. Usually yahoo barely registers, this week it was 10% of the incoming.
Searching for "mather airshow" on yahoo, for some reason, turns my page up #1, whereas on Google I can't even find it.
Should that page really be #1 on yahoo for that search? Ah, I see, "air show" is two words, so I've typojacked it. Google's a lot closer in it's results for airshow.
Interestingly, yahoo suggests: "california capital airshow, mather airport, mather field " which is spot on. The first is the real name of the air show, and takes you right to the front page. Google says "did you mean" and separates the words, but still doesn't have a link to the show's actual site in the top 10.
So I guess the moral is that the mather air show people need to apply a little SEO.
Can we imply that air show folk use Yahoo more, since even though I'm #1, that's still a way, way disproportionate number of yahoo users. I'm #2 for "rob meyer" on yahoo and #2 on google, yet google wins normally by a 10:1 ratio. Seems like a safe call that yahoo is way out of proportion here. Weird.
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