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Blind Testing your Search Engine: Yahoo, Google or Bing!
24Aug2009 Filed under: Best of the Internet, Search Engine Author: Howard
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This pretty cool website allows you to run a blind test on the three major search engines at the moment, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft’s Bing!. Now, search results have always been a very tight competition between tech companies as it is probably the main website that people visit and being ‘famous’ for providing consistent and reliable search results can mean very huge profits just by virtue of driving traffic to your website.
For many years now, I have been a loyal Google fan and scoff at anybody who uses other search engines, especially Yahoo’s. But research have shown that just by attaching a logo or trademark to search results, you can be biased towards the brand that you are used to. That’s the purpose of the Search Engine Blind Test website linked above.
The site is pretty simple, just type in any search query and it shows you results in three columns side by side. Simply choose the one you think shows you the best results and the site will reveal who them belong to. In my limited testing, I found that I tend to average pretty evenly between all three websites. Then again, it may be because my queries are pretty general and the results show more or less the same things, albeit ordered differently.
The website also supports searching for images, which is a plus for me because I do a lot of stuff that requires looking up images constantly and now I am able to search across all three sites in one page.
Understand though that this website will strip out all personalization and localization that companies like Google and Microsoft often incorporate into their search results. It is purely a test of the search algorithms with some parts of it disabled. Some argue that the personalization (where past searches are used to compute future search results) means the test is rather crippled. However, until someone comes up with a better idea, you can head on over to the website and let us know which search engines you end up choosing the most.
The following are the top 10 search terms that the website have gotten so far:
| Web | Image | |
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
Mashable bing test sex michael jackson linux microsoft yahoo porn |
sex porn boobs megan fox bing pussy apple tits nude |
- Tags: bling, google, search engines, yahoo
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August 24th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Very interesting tool… I still think Google is the most algorithmically correct search engine 99% of the time. Bing is too spammed and Yahoo is too easy to SEO for.
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August 24th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Haha 60% of images searches are adult! What a great representation of the users of that site.
Nicole Price
August 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
This is simply fantastic. Thank you for this lead.
Internet Marketing | G Web
August 25th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Hmmmm, there is some merit in this process. It is gratifying that Google is being confronted by some much improved competition these days, comared to a year ago! Wolfram Alpha is another new player we’re still goung to hear loads about.
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August 25th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Kind of a cool tool, I will check it out. It is funny that most of the results are adult.
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August 28th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
hehehe… I’ll go try this new cool tool… how did you find out about this?
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September 2nd, 2009 at 3:41 am
This is a great tool. People often want to quickly search all 3 top search engines. Now we can compare them side by side. It would be nice if we had the option to reveal the search engine names without voting. Usually Google is the most relevant, but for certain queries MSN or Yahoo does deliver better results.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
Fun stuff, seems I voted for bing on the search results for my first search, while on the image side I choose Google. Although I was a little biased because I was looking for my own website
Till then,
Jean
Nicole Price
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
You have been unusually quiet for over a week! All well?
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September 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Both time I choose Google, for web as well as images…Pretty nice
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September 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Google or Yahoo won every time! Bing really is the poorest search engine.
Seotips
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Google is still far ahead.It isn`t perfect but milions of webmasters try to fool the algorithm every day without any succsess.
Mind Ruin
September 5th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
LoL the adult results. Bling is just “OK” honestly I don’t think anyone needs 3 major search engines, do we?
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September 7th, 2009 at 6:34 am
@Mind Ruin, I think we DO need 3 major search engines, because if we have just 1 search engine, then there is a Monopoly, and that’s never good for the search engines to get better we need competition.
Till then,
Jean
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September 8th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
As much as people like to dream, it will take a while before Google is de-throned. They have 70% of the search market. Until the algos are tweaked a little more for better results, I don’t think any SE stands a chance. But as history has shown us, the landscape can change pretty drastically in short periods of time.
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September 10th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
It is a cool toy, and helps to take the gloss off Google’s performance. Google’s geo-targeting is what makes it attractive to me here in South Africa. The jury is still out on the efficacy of Bing’s .za service. It would be nice to have some decent competition!
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September 12th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Whoa, no wonder the phrase “sex sells” came about…. practically what everyone seems to be searching for these days.
Jack
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September 21st, 2009 at 6:34 am
I love how all the top image searches are adult!! lol
ZoopMedia
October 5th, 2009 at 12:28 am
LOL There seriously are a lot of adult type searches. I figured it would be common, but not THAT common!
bruce
October 5th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Yeah, sex does sell and we know young men are very interested and driven about this topic, so the results are not that surprising. I do agree google is the biggest search engine, but yahoo and bing are improving and adding some additional features.
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October 5th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Thanks for the tool suggestion. I can see how it would be useful for webmasters and internet marketers.
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October 10th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Bing is doing a surprisingly poor job considering it is a Microsoft baby.
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October 18th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
wow thats an interesting site!
many years ago i was a Yahoo search fan but then became Google’s unknowingly!
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October 19th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I must say that I am intrigued by bing as they have taken off, especially with their cashback tool. In terms of the best algorithm, cuil is supposed to be on top. Google has the highest market share and have been consistent over the years.
Internet Marketing | G Web
October 20th, 2009 at 4:12 am
The latest results show that Google has pretty much reversed earlier gains made by Bing and Yahoo, and that we’re pretty much back to square one! They sure haven’t been resting on their laurels, and are keeping abreast and ahead of the competition.
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October 20th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Very useful link. I found that Bing & Yahoo are throwing more relevant results than Google.
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December 10th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Wow, this tool is quite interesting. The search engine competition is getting more and more intense. I am glad that there are other options besides google, its keeps them on their toes!
(and lol at the most searched terms)
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January 18th, 2010 at 1:45 am
this is an awesome website….very useflul….I sue to use one like this but it only had google and bing. Thanks again
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January 21st, 2010 at 4:04 am
This is simply fantastic.
Thank you for this lead.
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January 23rd, 2010 at 4:44 am
The best of the best quality search engine Google in my sight!
Computer Tips and Tech Talk
March 15th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Sex and porn are still the top. You can imagine how large the porn market can be.
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March 19th, 2010 at 9:22 am
This is a great tool I’m a great google fan because I get good search results but Yahoo and Bing are still trying to compete with Google.
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March 26th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Thanks for tool
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June 7th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
i choose google for search result and images, nice tool!
Mark Nasri
June 29th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Google is the best one by far.
Uzi
August 3rd, 2010 at 8:18 pm
I think this is really interesting concept and fun to use.
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August 6th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
“Haha 60% of images searches are adult! What a great representation of the users of that site.”
I agree with you dude! Most of the time we just have to turn on the safe search for not being called a pervert.
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February 14th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
ultimate tool … I have never heard about this tool, Working style is unique because i can popularity in every search simultaneously.
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February 23rd, 2011 at 6:44 pm
wow ! this is really amazing. It will help a lot in our filed of SEO
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April 13th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
This is ofcourse, truly a blind test. It is good in seo.
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September 2nd, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Haha 60% of images searches are adult! What a great representation of the users of that site.
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September 22nd, 2011 at 12:17 pm
dude, why were u searching adult content on search engines btw?? :p
John Robbins
November 7th, 2011 at 4:28 am
I have been using rank checker to check rankings of my sites which similarly does the same thing with all local stuff stripped out except G.co.uk that’s where I am, however what a useful tool I found that many of my clients sites rank on the whole world format via blindsearch and there is a difference to the results returned by rank checker – this sparked curiosity and strangely I am getting higher rankings on blindsearch than rank checker. Great tool – thanks for sharing
John Robbins
Seo Cardiff Wales
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March 6th, 2012 at 8:13 am
Wow. Doesn’t surprise me at all and can’t be used in my business
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April 6th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Really interesting website. I teste several times and most of the times i selected the results of google. That must mean something.
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April 8th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
The best part about Google is how intuitive it is, almost like it’s another human that you’re interacting with. The results are most accurate most of the time.
-Jean
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April 10th, 2012 at 12:10 am
Google is far from being like a person. Nor do I ever want it to be.
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April 10th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
cool tool, I will check it out, It can be funny to see more.
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May 5th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
nice information
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John Adams
February 27th, 2013 at 2:02 am
Google is a master by far, just make sure to log out your google account to have a better search result. and why dose the link takes us to a drug store ?