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Title: Which Search Engine would you use in a blind study? Find out
Post by: raptor on 2009-08-09T07:48:34-05:00 (Sunday)

Neat site that provides search results from Bing, Google and Yahoo without telling you which is which. Fun experiment.
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

Title: Re: Which Search Engine would you use in a blind study? Find out
Post by: Bryan on 2009-08-11T07:38:03-05:00 (Tuesday)

WOW! I've been doing quite a bit of research on Tanzania and Mt. Kilimanjaro lately and figured I'd try some of the queries I'd been using. Surprisingly enough, Google was provided the worst results...

Title: Re: Which Search Engine would you use in a blind study? Find out
Post by: William Grim on 2009-08-11T20:54:18-05:00 (Tuesday)

Well, I have a tough rme deciding. I agree that google is doing a poor job in this test. Yahoo and bing are much stronger contenders. However, logged in as myself, google does a better overall job, because it's learned my search preferences.

Google still wins on its UI though. I wish the Yahoo would simplify. Bing is pretty good, but the main page's images really tuen me off.

Title: Re: Which Search Engine would you use in a blind study? Find out
Post by: arcdrag on 2009-08-12T12:10:55-05:00 (Wednesday)

Personally, all my results were almost identical. Since google is the only search engine without a bunch of crap on the front page, I'll keep using it.

Title: Re: Which Search Engine would you use in a blind study? Find out
Post by: Tangent Orchard on 2009-08-15T17:35:42-05:00 (Saturday)

I pretty much got results with a 60/40 preference for Google. :)

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