Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Search Death Match
June 15, 2009
Well, not really “death” death. Ihar Mohaniok’s “Blind Search Engines Comparison on Real Queries” caught my attention. The youthful looking M. Mohaniok wrote:
Just in time for Bing launch, one of Microsoft engineers has built a “Blind search” engine, which allows to compare search results from Google, Yahoo! and Bing without branding (and without all helpers, like “universal” aka News/Video/Images, or spelling correction, unfortunately). The concept isn’t new, but I don’t know other public implementations.
Mr. Mohaniok summarized his tests. Bottom-line:
So, total count on difficult queries: 15 for Google, 1 for Yahoo!, 1 for Bing, 1 draw. If we include Yandex for Russian-language queries, it steals one win from Google.
Not a scientific test, but I find the results suggestive.
Stephen Arnold, June 15, 2009
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Yes I got similar results (i.e. Google winning most of the time) but that was on fairly generic search terms. I wonder if Bing might be (maybe transiently) better on trending topics – Google seems to struggle in the “real-time search” domain.