BBC Magazine's Search-Engine Shootout

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 13, 2004 @07:24AM from the asanine-suggestions-from-jeeves-the-idiot-butler dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On BBC Online's excellent Magazine, there is a shootout between Google, MSN, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves. Search tests were conducted on five criteria: an obscure fact; multiple meanings of "raleigh"; speed; and current time in Sydney. Yahoo! is the fastest of the lot. Google has the cleanest interface. MSN Search fared worst of all. Jeeves is the apparent winner for features like related search. (Author claims to be a Google nut.)" This may be the nicest thing anyone's ever said about Jeeves.

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Re:How long until relevance engines are commoditie by spoonist · 2004-11-13 08:04 · Score: 5, Informative

Wired recently had an article recently about how brand names along just aren't cutting it any more.
Consumers are wising up the quality is more important than name.