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Blind Search reveals your real favorite search engine
Most people would say that Google is their favorite search engine. Hell, a lot of people think that Google is the only search engine, the same way some people refer to every soft drink as a "Coke." If Google is Coke, though, then Bing is Pepsi, and Blind Search is the Pepsi Challenge for search engines. Use it to take a blind taste of the results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, and find out which search engine you really prefer. Considering the recently-announced Bing/Yahoo! partnership, you might want to go ahead and ignore the Yahoo! results. Regardless, it's still surprising to find out that Google doesn't turn out to be the best choice every time. Still, from the results Blind Search has collected so far, users appear to enjoy the great taste of Google 41% of the time, vs. 31% for Bing and 28% for Yahoo!
What did Blind Search tell you? Were you surprised by the results? Let us know in the comments.
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Subscribe to commentsAshishAug 18th 2009 2:43PM
This is very easy to manipulate. I can just open a google or bing window, type the same query in blind search and bing/google. I know which one I need to vote for.
I would not mind having combined results for my searches as it will give me more choices specially for those ones where I get less than a page of results.
This article of urs inspired me to find the add-on "bing vs. google" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12661 . I think i'l use it as my default for the next few days
sitrucAug 18th 2009 7:25PM
I think you missed the point.
SensaiAug 19th 2009 2:02PM
You absolutely, one hundred percent missed the point of this. Are you familiar with the Pepsi challenge, at all?
DerfBWH08Aug 18th 2009 2:45PM
I'm a Bing guy.
BugMeNotAug 18th 2009 2:54PM
Proper nouns.. Yahoo is undisputed..
DaveAug 18th 2009 6:29PM
I tried web search and image search and Google came out best each time. True true.
DeoWulfAug 18th 2009 7:43PM
The problem is I've grown up on Google, and I've learned how to Google well to get my desired result. I'm going to be using Bing for the foreseeable future to see if I can learn to "Bing". I'll need to get used to it for the Zune HD.
Praveen PremchandranAug 19th 2009 12:05AM
hey, there is a BIG work around this one though...
If you search for stuff like say the name of a place, then Google results generally have wikipedia pages right on the top... so, if you find he one with the most wiki links, its probably going to be google... go ahead and try it ;)
joe kernelAug 19th 2009 1:56PM
Hey this blind search is developed by a microsoft employee....they are manipulating the results...that why bing is getting 31%....try a search in blind search and try the same in google,it will be different....for example try "define:aeroplane" kind of search...google will not show any results in blind search or otherwise they will show different search result from actual google search....its yet another hectic tactic employed by microsoft to beat google and to cheat people....
bing searches are manipulated by microsoft
http://digg.com/tech_news/Is_Bing_Censoring_Questions_About_Microsoft
SensaiAug 19th 2009 2:05PM
The man isn't hiding his employer, nor is he claiming Blind Search is flawless. In fact, he says that it's "very very beta" and we should "expect it to break;" this is right after he says that "the system has many flaws that I know about already."
It's not a conspiracy theory, it's just a man having a little fun in his own time (his words).
MR. xAug 20th 2009 12:43PM
what?
google's not the only search engine?
Lee JonesSep 2nd 2009 6:44PM
I did three searches on topics that interested me today but that I did not search on previously... oddly, it was Google every time.