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BBC Magazine's Search-Engine Shootout

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. How long until relevance engines are commodities? by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Within the next two years max. That spells trouble for Google and its shareholders, who still place a very high premium on what is quickly becoming a common service. Fortunately for Google insiders, they should be able to cash out long before the regular dopes in investorland figure this out.

  2. Something I can say about Jeeves.... by th3space · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It helped me track down a couple of old friends, even when all others had failed. To be fair, it was the last one that I had turned to - I'd even tried dogpile and lycos before that.

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    "How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)