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.
Search Engine – Load Test – Who is the best ?
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.
Choosing A Blog Topic – BLOG TIP
When I first decided I was going to setup LM-BLOG I asked myself one question over and over. That question was "what topic?" I knew I wanted to blog but really was not sure what I wanted to blog about.
At first I chose money and fuel usage as my topics for my blog. However during a period of 3 or so months when I did no work whatsoever to this blog I realised that I could really run the blog with a much wider topic. At that point I chose technology.
The blog still attempts to keep the same topic but has no grown into a much wider area where I show mostly "help" topics, by this I mean advising on things to use and also offering thoughts are reason for why to do things.
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Interview with Adgitize – July 09
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Okay I have been lucky enough to get a second interview with Adgitize owner Ken Brown about Adgitize and the progress it has made since its launch.
Although not directly linked to the first interview ( http://lmblog.co.uk/interview-with-adgitize-ken-brown/ ) I think that it will help to see changes and how thoughts from Ken have changed since Adgitize was in its early stages.
The interview follows (I am in bold, Ken is in normal text) :
Hi Ken, first of all how are you yourself doing ?
I am doing wonderful. It has been a nice cool summer here in Illinois and I have seen family and friends.
That is great to hear now straight into things I think. You moved to a dedicated server recently how did that go? Do you find that this has given both you and Adgitize as a whole a more flexible and secure network? Even that you get more freedom?
No Paid EC
For some reason this post was never published, or written for that matter, on LM-BLOG so finally I have changed that and finally I have spent time writing about this change and why I have declined it.
Really the main reason for which I chose to not display paid Entrecard Ads on LM-BLOG was because of my own advertisers. Although the number is low and each ad is only really worth 128 EC points my advertisers are still a very important part of my blog.
Without them I myself would find it much harder to advertise on other blogs, their points give me advertising points to spend.
I want them to get the time they pay for so that they benifit as much as I can let them. They pay for 24hours I want them to get 24hours not the 50% of time the paid scheme offers.