How Web Documents Are Ranked on Yahoo?

When you search on Yahoo!, search engine instantly searches and sorts billions of web documents. Yahoo! Search then makes a decision on each document's comparative relevancy to your search query, and offers these web pages as ranked search results. Search engines do not have the ability to ask questions, so they rely on the search terms you enter to interpret and determine the intent of your search.

Yahoo! Search ranks results according to their relevance to a particular query by analyzing the web page text, title, and description as well as its source, associated links, and other unique document characteristics.