Search Engine – Result Test – Who is the best ?
Welcome to the second edition of my Search engine posts. This version will look at the top four search engines in further detail to further help us on our way to deciding which Search engine is the best to use. Just to remind you the search engines in question are Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask
The test which I will be carrying out in the post is all based around how fast the search engines retrieve their results and how many results are retrieved.
However the number of results can be looked at as being a little irrelevant at this current point, it will be further looked at in our next post which will look at how well search terms are analysed and results provided from these searches.
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Okay as promised here is my comparison of Bing and the other leaders of the search engine world. I had hoped to do a top ten search engine comparison but after realising the top 4 had a combined market share of 99% I chose to do just a top 4comparison.
Bellow are the 4 search engines and their market shares as at August 2009.
Google … 70.29%
Yahoo … 16.96%
Bing … 9.44%
Ask … 2.37%
I have chosen to show the top four so you can really see just how much of a difference there is between rank 1 and 4.
Okay the results of my load test were really what I expected to see. Google being the fastest loader and Yahoo being a much slower loader and coming in last.
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