Comments on: Google Yahoo or Bing

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:10:02 +0000

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By: jalaj

jalaj — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:02:34 +0000

I give 0 to Google for “Dead Link Checks and done with events”… what event can be more imposrtant than that related to itself??

Check “Google PR update” and the first page that shows up.

A page that showed authorative info until Oct 2007 is now unfortunately giving all wrong info. Unfortunately many sites still quote “As of June 28th, there has not been a Toolbar PR export for 487 day(s).” The site is fooling google by using server side date count and the Big G is promoting it to 1 st result

A personal message to webmaster in late 2007 received answer that my programmer is not free now. At least he got some time in early 2008 to make update!!!! but then not time for more than last 16 months….

This post inspired me to write What Exactly is a Good Search Engine?

BTW I don’t see any problem with bangalore.com!!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:40:04 +0000

I have tried other search engines from time to time and never strayed from Google. However, I am now using Bing as my default engine, and every 1 of 4 searches I might also do in Google, but I like how Bing presents the results along with pertinent sidecars of info. Image search is really presented much better, though Google again sometimes does a better job of relevancy.

I guess presentation does matter more than one would relative to purely search quality.

By: simarprit

simarprit — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:14:52 +0000

Thank you for reading my post and for taking time to comment on it. I appreciate your questions. Here we go:

1. I collected my first set of test data on all 100 parameters over two days at San Jose and subsequently collected a second set of test data at Chicago.
2. On the basis of that test data I published Google Bing Comparison http://uurl.in/slfy2 As a quick report
3. I have published results of first 25 criteria and the balance I would be doing over weekend.
4. My data set typically contains 4 to 5 data points per criteria
5. I don’t make any claims that my study would have no subjective components to it, I think every study is bound to have some of it. I have done a similar study on Google vs Cuil comparison about an year back and I am following the same approach..
6. I am also considering holding a joint session with SDF or SIPA or USMAC as a formal release of the report.

Thank you once again

Simar

By: Jonathan Wong

Jonathan Wong — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:20:29 +0000

Just curious, but which market version of Bing are you conducting your tests with? The United States version or the Inda version?

And would you also be publishing the methodology on how each parameter is being scored and why each result is given the numeric score you gave?

For example, I just did a search for “111 North Market Street” on all three engines, and I couldn’t figure out how Google’s score can be so much better than Yahoo’s or Bing’s result.

Interesting study, but it looks terribly subjective to me.

By: simarprit

simarprit — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:10:30 +0000

Malcolm I would be back in San Jose on June 22, 2009 – how about dropping in and validating the review by that time I would have posted my views on all 100 parameters. I cross checked now – my current location is India, Google gives me the right time, Yahoo has not moved me away from San Jose and shows me San Jose time (I moved from San Jose to Chicago, Chicago to New Delhi, India – but Yahoo just tells me Pacific Daylight Time) and Bing doesn’t understand what I am doing.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:24:27 +0000

Great analysis!

I’d be interested in seeing what process you took for each of these. For instance, what did you do for #18 ‘Time’?

If I do a query for “time” in Google, it will give me links to time.gov, etc.
Whereas both Yahoo and Bing give me the actual time in my time zone, in addition to links.. so wondering why you gave them 9, 1, 0 points respectively?

By: jaideep

jaideep — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:44:22 +0000

nice rewiew