Comments on Ihar Mahaniok - personal blog: Blind search engines comparison on real queries

New finding: entering [russian google blog] into B...

2009-06-14T11:58:58.932+02:00

New finding: entering [russian google blog] into Bing's German edition, you get porn spam on positions 3 and 4.

to Anonymous: I was biased, but only in sense of ...

2009-06-13T23:42:33.407+02:00

to Anonymous:

I was biased, but only in sense of doing my queries in real life - and when I issued them, it was days before the idea of this post, I never thought about comparing the engines - I was searching for something. Formulating [sign up for wave] was easier than [sign up for google wave] - and, good for me, Google saved me from necessity of the second try. And oceans have nothing to do with signing up, so they clearly don't answer the query.

As for the funny point, [sign up for google wave] also doesn't show the sign up link on neither Yahoo! nor Bing. And Yahoo! still manages to show 3 results that have nothing to do with Google Wave.

As for your test, I would appreciate if you have shown actual queries, and explanation of the intent behind them.

I salute the effort, but you are slightly biased f...

2009-06-13T21:23:32.305+02:00

I salute the effort, but you are slightly biased from the start.

The wave query is a classic example. From the query - it has nothing to do with google wave. The query was about oceans. All 3 engines blew the first 3 queries.

My test: 6 for G, 4 for Bing, and 5 for yahoo - rest were draws.