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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.

2 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Jeeves is full of crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jeeves is full of crap. He doesn't know if he's gay or not! Ask him

  2. Re:Drudge Report confirms: Dick Cheney is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good. So, what require now is one giant pretzel for GWB and one fat-dripping beef for Cheney with egg and fries. Good riddance.