Comparing Your Search Engines

Over the weekend, a website called Blind Search was created to compare top search engines. The site was designed for you to enter a search and pick which list of results is the best without knowing which list is which search engines’. The poll was created by an employee of Microsoft so who knows if the results are bias or not. Initial results were in favor of Bing but eventually turned toward Google, by a large margin. Right before the weekend closed, however, Yahoo surged into first.

The poll results are down for now because someone was manipulating the results. One article questions if the site went down because Yahoo finally took the lead. But I question that the lead could have been due to the person playing the system. So now the results are hidden, until the hacking problem gets sorted out. But you can still go test search results between the three engines.

I did a test on results for Keystone Hendersonville, TN, and personally found that I liked the results of Google the most. Yahoo had too many results for the city of Hendersonville and not enough for Keystone. Bing was a close second, in my opinion, because they gave more results for Keystone than the city of Hendersonville, TN, but not as many as Google. Google gave only one result for the city of Hendersonville, all the rest were Keystone related including some events we have had in the past and some newspaper articles featuring Keystone. So, until the poll results are available again, I encourage you to go and play around with different searches and see if you are in fact a Google person, or if you like Bing most, or if really Yahoo is a better suit for you.