Google is quicker to index, but Yahoo is quicker to rank. It will take several months to get a decent ranking in Google.
In my experience google is faster than Yahoo. I don't know actually which is faster but most people claims google is faster.
Yahoo is faster because they have fewer servers and google have a host of server and bots to go around. I think its due to the reason that google bots do their ranking base on other directories/bots reading. Where as Yahoo does less of it. That's the difference between the two. According to me.
for me, google was faster than yahoo but then my website disappeared on google. but it is showing up on yahoo lol.
i don't agree. Sometimes google quicker indexed than Yahoo for new site. But in other times, Yahoo quicker indexed than Google.
I think it just depends on the situation, it can be different each time, I guess it just depends on what bots are traveling where and what not...
Search Engines index a page quickly when they find a link to it from a good ranked page. You submit your page to social networking sites and see. You will find it indexed in 1 day.