Not all search engines are created equal and while Google has been the undisputed king for some years, perhaps Bing or even long-time Yahoo! is worth a try. A Microsoft employee has produced a blind search tool to help you find out just which one delivers the goods.
Microsoft developer Michael Kordahi has constructed BlindSearch or, as he likes to call it, “the search engine taste test.”
Use BlindSearch by typing in a typical web query. The application then returns three columns, being the top ten results as given by Google, Bing and Yahoo!.
The source of the results is not displayed and the order of the columns is random, so you do not know which engine delivered which set of results. This means you are not employing any subconscious bias based on any branding accompanying the results.
While you can simply click away at the 30 results given, BlindSearch encourages you to rate which column you believe had the best matches.
As soon as you indicate your preference, the search engine names are revealed and you can discover if your preferred search engine was the winner, or if you might consider it time to switch loyalties.
There are some minor deficiencies in BlindSearch, the most obvious being lack of localisation. All searches take place from the BlindSearch server and consequently are executed as United States searches originating from the U.S.
Additionally, other components of the search engine experience are missing, notably image thumbnails, cached results and other elements.
Nevertheless, it is an interesting application and may change your views on search engine performance.
Kordahi encourages feedback and points out while he works for Microsoft this is not a Microsoft project and has no bias towards Bing.
Source:[itwire.com]
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Did you ever enter “best search engine” on Google, Yahoo, or Bing? Try it..both of them are not listed on top of SERP..
I am using Google since long now, and there is nothing is the world at this moment which is tinting me to move my mind away from google!
When I think about searching something only one name come in my mind is Google. I guess no body can bit Google in search market
still google is king.. check any sites traffic.. most of traffic came from google
Google is best Search engine than yahoo.
but bing is the worst search engine.
That’s why no “Yahoo”ing or “Bing”. Just Googling!
True google is the best and provide the most relevant search results but when it comes to real time searches Bing can be really interesting.
One thing i have noted about yahoo is that their rankings do not change for quite some time.If you are able to get a good rank at yahoo then you will be there …at least for some weeks.That may not be the case with google. Anyway good article !
As a blogger and as a user Google is always my first preference, I guess in thousand searches I have made, its only once or twice I had to use Yahoo search!
Google is the best. But i like bing too. It has many unique can new features. It looks like a new generation web search :-P.
@ Ricky :- I also prefer Google for my needful searches, can say as my default search engine all time.
@ Indyaz :- Google is surely The King, most of the traffic on my site comes from Google and few from Bing and then Yahoo n other search engines…
@ Arjun :- I use Google for my searches and for my sites seo too. But started liking Bing also sometimes
@ Harsh Agrawal :- Thanx for Stopping by Harsh
Any suggestions for my blog ? am a daily reader of your blog
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