Tim Kastellescience comes to the search engine wars! – Tim Kastelle https://timkastelle.org Build Autonomy & Impact With Ideas Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:50:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 36782504 science comes to the search engine wars! https://timkastelle.org/blog/2009/06/science-comes-to-the-search-engine-wars/ https://timkastelle.org/blog/2009/06/science-comes-to-the-search-engine-wars/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:02:28 +0000 Tim Kastelle https://timkastelle.org/blog/?p=333 I found this post on the Data Mining blog, which links to a page that compares bing, yahoo & google. The idea is that you submite a search term, and then it performs the search on all three search engines, and returns the first page of each. You can then pick which results are the best, after which you can find out which results came from which search engine.

For me so far, yahoo is performing better than I expected. I haven’t used it for search in years…

In any case, it’s good to be able to test this blindly. Still, given the relative market positions, being slightly better on search results isn’t going to do bing or yahoo much good (it’s like Pepsi winning the Pepsi challenge – people aren’t choosing Coke because it tastes better!) – they still need to come up with a compelling, unique business model if they’re going to dislodge google from the top of the hill…

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