Which search engine do you truly prefer – Google, Bing, or Yahoo? Let’s find out!
January 1, 2012 39
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Google is trying to take over the world, Microsoft already owns our souls, and Yahoo… well, Yahoo is a classic (couldn’t think of anything else to say about Yahoo). So the million dollar multi-billion dollar question is who’s search engine do you use? With Yahoo quickly dying away most of us will either say Google or Bing. However is your answer to my question just a “jump-on-the-bandwagon” thing or do you really like that search engine? Well lets find out.
Blind Search is an interesting website which helps you figure out which search Engine is best for you. It works in a simple way. You simply type in what you want to search for…
…and results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo are displayed:
You are then asked to select which search engine your prefer based on the search results you get. The thing is you don’t know which results are from which search engine (hence the name “Blind Search”). After you select the search engine you are told which one you selected:
Apparently I am a Yahoo fan. Now this isn’t exactly an experiment that would get published in the Science Journal but it is interesting. So, now tell me, which search engine do you truly prefer? Find out from the link below:
[via ScienceRoll]
Ashraf,Ur 2 hrs ahead of me, where. The heck R U, in California, I’m in Texas (Austin-ralia).BTW @ #2 Robert Yahoo is good @ shrapnel shotgun aim &now joined w/ MS should be interesting since MS has desktop concerns over privacy, hence, security issues.They can all find it they can all be fast or slow they all seem. 2 be tied into forerunner Google’s worldwide database pact agreement w/ world nations 2 digitize & access these libraries so almost mute point of believing as in the recent debate on merits for mem defrag & optimisers on another site G.
@ Locutus: Call me the worrisome type, but should that be posted? What if someone took exception to something he posted and, I don’t know, sought him out? What if a mad posse of software-makers came after him with felonious intent?
I can’t help but think anonymity might be a good thing, given that there are some nut jobs there.
But again, I may just be worrying unnecessarily …
@Ozzie: Thanks. You are right it should not be posted. I even removed all traces of it from my About page long ago after an incident.
@Locutus: If I don’t answer a question by a commentator there is a reason for it. Please let me handle the personal questions about myself. Feel free to answer any other advice related questions for me =).
LOL…I was thinking that this test will prove me wrong but hey Google is for me haha.
I made 10 searches and these are the results:
7 Google
2 Yahoo
1 Bing
I made another 10 searches and these are the results:
5 Google
2 Yahoo
3 Bing
Summing it up,
12 Google
4 Yahoo
4 Bing
I guess Google is for me while Bing and Yahoo are of the same standards to me.
Google for the web, Yahoo for images.
I prefer searchy.com …. easy name to remember and good range of results .. they also have searchy.co.uk …
I decided to do a 10 search query with three different types of goals. Here they are with their results.
1. Random searching and see what information I can learn.
- 8 Bing
- 2 Google
2. Actuall Real life work inqueries;
- 7 Bing
- 3 Google
3. Leisure searching ( internet fun times)
- 7 Bing
- 2 Google
- 1 Yahoo
Well guess after seeing these results, I will give Bing a shot for a time, and see if I “truly” like Bing over Google.
I’ve tried BING in the past and must say I prefer Google but to be fair I tried the test with 4 randomly chosen terms. Three out of the four returned no results at all on Yahoo so I’ll eliminate it. I tied 2 and 2 on Bing and Google, but I noticed that on the only list where I had no difficulty determining the winner the result is Google. A thin margin to declare victory on but I’ll take it, and Google as my preferred search engine.
My came back Bing, what was interesting was Yahoo did not return any results.
DuckDuckGo – http://duckduckgo.com/
Interesting – when I searched on the term ‘lavender’, I got several (useless) social media results from Bing. When I searched on ‘fragrance’, both engines gave nearly identical commercial sites. However, I always search from Google’s advanced search. I’ve tried Bing and found the search customization to be far inferior to Google.
Another one Yahoo-ing all the way!!! ;)
Got started with it from the time it found a wonderful website for my school project…
I used and was still able to distinguish between the three before clicking.
Google has the + for spaces and %XX for some characters in the url line while Bing doesn’t.
Yahoo just doesn’t give me any results. :/
I just based it off how easy it is for me to read the results and how not distracting everything else is.
Google wins by a small margin, and it’s because its home page loads faster.
I performed the test with the search string “Taco Syroco” and the site claimed one search engine returned nothing (Yahoo). However, when I went to Yahoo search web page and enter the string, Yahoo returned plenty… I think their test is flawed…