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Google vs Bing vs Yahoo – The Test

I will be using BlindSearch to conduct a test to see which search engine I believe gives the best results for several search terms. You can  try out BlindSearch yourself be visiting http://blindsearch.fejus.com/.

BlindSearch allows you to search all three of the major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo at the same time. The reason why it is called “BlindSearch” is because it doesn’t tell you which search engine the results are from. Instead you vote one which results you think are the most relevant. This way users won’t be bias on which search engine they use and may be surprised by the results.

In this example I search for my website “whatsupinyourlife”. Since my website is only a few weeks old there are very few search results for it.

You can see how one of the search engines does not show my website (whatsupinyourlife.com) as the top site. You can also that all three search engines show my articles on digg. I then voted for which search engine I thought was the best based on the results. Look below to see which search engine I voted for with no bias thanks to BlindSearch.

Google won this round. With both the first and second result being pages from my actual site I thought it was the best.

For test two I will be searching for my shorter address which is wuiyl.com with out the .com. See the search results below.

You can see how the search engine on the right is the only one that displays a website that links directly to one of my articles for the first result. You can’t tell from the picture but one of the search engines only displays a few entries and has very poor results. I voted for the search engine that displayed the digg link to my article. See results below.

As you can see Google was once again the best search engine in my opinion. After many generic searches I concluded that all three search engines are very similar in their results. They all seem to list the same top 10 results but in different order. I will try to find search terms that help to determine which search engine is better in a future post.

This article is related to my previous article on Google vs Bing. Check it out here.