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April 19, 2005

Which Search Engine Is Better?

This site allows you to compare the first 100 hits of any search term in Google and Yahoo. The dots on the top and bottom end represent links to the first 100 hits in Google and Yahoo respectively, and the blue connecting lines link the same hits. What I found interesting was the fact that you seldom get parallel lines, regardless of how common the search term is (for example, try "sex" and "microsoft"). This means that depending on what search engine you predominantly use, your online experience can vary dramatically. There hasn't been a lot of emphasis on this phenomenon, as far as I know; people tend to assume that as long as you're on the Internet, you're having more or less the same experiences as most other web surfers, i.e. you come across the same sites and you refer to the same sources of information. But apparently that's not really true!

Posted by chan at April 19, 2005 12:50 AM