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Which Search Engine would you use in a blind study? Find out

Started by raptor, 2009-08-09T07:48:34-05:00 (Sunday)

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raptor

Neat site that provides search results from Bing, Google and Yahoo without telling you which is which.  Fun experiment.
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant

Bryan

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...
Bryan Grubaugh
Quickly aging alumni with too much time on his hands
Business Systems Analyst, Scripps Networks.

William Grim

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.
William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley

arcdrag

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. 

Tangent Orchard

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