Ask HN: Is Bing really better than Google?
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A few years back (6 months before the first Bing study in the article) Michael Kordahi developed a site "Blind Search" that anonymised search results from Google, Bing and Yahoo and put them side by side, letting users vote which they preferred.
The site (http://blindsearch.fejus.com/) now seems somewhat-defunct, with Yahoo results failing show. Aggregated results posted mid-2009 (http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=839) (a little earlier than the original study) show Google on 41%, Bing 31%, Yahoo 28%, however.
As a purely non-scientific anecdote, I personally used the Blind Search website for a month mid-2011, preferring Google around 75% of the time, Yahoo 15% and Bing 10% of the time. (The latter two are interesting, because Yahoo is presumably using Bing's engine behind the scenes.) I probably don't represent a "typical user", however, as most of my queries are programming-related, which perhaps some search engines have better optimised for than others.
The site (http://blindsearch.fejus.com/) now seems somewhat-defunct, with Yahoo results failing show. Aggregated results posted mid-2009 (http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=839) (a little earlier than the original study) show Google on 41%, Bing 31%, Yahoo 28%, however.
As a purely non-scientific anecdote, I personally used the Blind Search website for a month mid-2011, preferring Google around 75% of the time, Yahoo 15% and Bing 10% of the time. (The latter two are interesting, because Yahoo is presumably using Bing's engine behind the scenes.) I probably don't represent a "typical user", however, as most of my queries are programming-related, which perhaps some search engines have better optimised for than others.
Someone pointed out a cool Blekko feature recently: a slashtag called /monte
http://blekko.com/ws/social+news+for+hackers+/monte
I've done around 50 searches using /monte and not once did I pick something other than Google. Kind of spooked me out really.
http://blekko.com/ws/social+news+for+hackers+/monte
I've done around 50 searches using /monte and not once did I pick something other than Google. Kind of spooked me out really.
My question is: Has any one else done this sort of study? If so, what were the relevant percentages? (And is there any trend over time?)
[1]: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2012/05/10/spend-less-time-searching-more-time-doing-introducing-the-new-bing.aspx