Comparisons of search engines' results
Posted by Celia Walter | 13 Jun, 2009
There are a few resources that have popped up in the last few days that
allow you to compare searches from the major engines in a blind taste
testing exercise. The first one that I came across was Blind Search.
Run a search and get a three column set of results - simply choose the
one set of results that you're happiest with. You'll then see the
engines popped up afterwards; Bing, Google or Yahoo. You have to keep a
note of the engine that you like the best, since a tally option that
the site originally had has now been removed.
The second engine, which just displays two screens from Bing and Google is called Bingandgoogle which doesn't score much for originality, but is very accurate. Bingle
does exactly the same job and you cannot really tell the two apart; the
only difference being that you can switch results entirely to one
search engine or the other.
Of course, if you don't like any of these you can always try Tripleme which does a search across Yahoo, Google and MSN Live (which I'm guessing is pulling results from Bing).
GrabAll allows you to compare two pane results for Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing, DMOZ, AltaVista, Gigablast and Looksmart.
Scour lets you check out results from Google, Yahoo and Bing with a nice sort option.
Searchboth
will compare results from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, MetaCrawler,
AltaVista, Looksmart and Websearch again in a two pane window approach.
Soovle
takes a different approach by providing on page access to Google,
Wikipedia, Amazon, Answers, Yahoo, Bing and YouTube, Type in your
keyword and Soovle comes up with alternative terms - click on any of
them and your search will be run on the appropriate engine.