Google, Yahoo, Bing Take The “Blind” Search Engine Challange
by Andrew Redfern @ 10th August 2009 11:15 am
Each of us have our favourite, we are by and large mostly Google devotees. But are we right to be? are we loyal to the best search engine or do we stick with them out of loyalty. There has been a general view within the industry is that users are not as discerning as they would like to think. Google has become what “Hoover” became to the vacuum industry and this will only serve to reinforce the idea that to search on the we, means: to “Google”.
So with a scientist cap on, the people at fejus.com. have created: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ .
Try now and search for something, it doesn’t matter what it is, you will receive the results from Yahoo, Bing ( soon to be the same) and Google ( fanfare please!). All branding is removed and the results are split into three columns.
I voted twice for the result which I favoured, by searching “HitSearch” I was presented with three different search results. At this point it would be nice to tell you the reader, that Google was hammered by Bing and that all the years we have been hoodwinked.
Well not quite..but almost:
Google: 44%, Bing: 33%, Yahoo: 23%. When you compare this against the 80% market share of Google and paltry 5% for Bing, Bing may very well be one to look out for in the future!
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