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From the blind test site: Google: 45%, Bing: 33%, Yahoo: 22% | 9,496 votes While they're all the same order of magnitude, I wouldn't call that "virtually iden
by alex_c 17y ago
From the blind test site:
Google: 45%, Bing: 33%, Yahoo: 22% | 9,496 votes
While they're all the same order of magnitude, I wouldn't call that "virtually identical"...
- zeedotme 17y agoagreed, in fact i changed the title to "almost identical". Did you try a few searches, what were they like?
- pmjordan 17y agoYou can often tell which one is Google from prominent Wikipedia results.
- ricree 17y agoWhen I tried the comparison, all three tended to have wikipedia pretty high in the rankings.
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- baddox 17y agoI can never think of any "fair" searches to try. So often I just use google to get to a specific webpage from the Firefox search bar faster than I could by typing in the full address. If I search for something with a specific result in mind, all 3 engines will nearly always give me that as the first result (for example: woot, eztv, twit). I never use search engines to look for a generic term the way search engines are always marketed, for example searching for "buy used textbooks" or "cheap prescription drugs" or "book a flight" since those results are always so commercialized that they're generally useless anyway.
- smokey_the_bear 17y agoYesterday, I had two searches for which Google was failing me, "prius chipmunks" and "ie6 image reload", so on a whim I tried bing, and bing had the answer in the top three for both. I was really surprised. I'll keep using Google, but I'll probably try bing when I'm stuck in the future.
- endtime 17y agoFWIW, it's now: >Google: 39%, Bing: 31%, Yahoo: 30% | 26,307 votes Which still shows Google in the lead, but they are clearly converging to something a little closer than at 9.5k votes.