Top Web Search Engines Analyzed
February 22, 2011
As the pool of internet search engines grows, so does the need to know which is best. “Best” can be based upon a number of factors: recall, precision, speed, etc. The people at AnalyzeThis.ru have developed a tool for comparing the top search engines.
They state,
“In order to independently assess the search quality, we developed a set of analyzers, one for each type of search queries . . . We measure the quality of navigational and informational search, the percentage of pornography among the pages found by a search engine, etc.”
Google is predictably the overall winner. Separate results are provided for each individual analyzer measured. This tells us that people are searching for a way to independently analyze the quality of search engines; however, the endeavor is subjective and objectivity is hard to produce. A Russian firm is behind the research and although the webpage is well translated, it would be useful to know in which language the research was conducted as it may have an impact on results.
Emily Rae Aldridge, February 22, 2011
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Thanks for the link, that’s an interesting site.