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Google vs. Bing — a Quasi-Empirical Study

Posted by timothy on from the unbearable-lightness-of-bing dept.

eko3 writes "SearchEngineLand.com is featuring an article that compares Google's result query relevance performance to Microsoft's Bing. Through the author's methodology and very small sampling, he argues Bing returns slightly more relevant results than Google. The article suggests that Google is riding its current market success based on its legacy namesake when internet search used to be a lot more painful than it is today."

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  1. What about AltaVista? by thomasdz · · Score: 4, Funny

    As I sit here surfing the web on my Digital Equipment Corp. VAX 4000, I wonder... why is there no comparisons to AltaVista... the king of search engines.

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    1. Re:What about AltaVista? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because there IS no comparison to AltaVista. Good or Bad!

    2. Re:What about AltaVista? by countSudoku() · · Score: 4, Funny

      You lucky, lucky bastard. I only WISH I could afford a sweet chunk of iron like the DEC VAX 4K! I'm on a Commodore Vic 20 connected to CompuServe and I can't search shit! In my day we'd have to use our HP programmable calculator connected to a dodgy barcode reader the size of a small aircraft to parse through the pages of a phone book, and we LIKED it that way. Darn, whippersnappers on my lawn, gotta get the rake...

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    3. Re:What about AltaVista? by node+3 · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm on a Commodore Vic 20

      What's the weather like in Afghanistan these days?

      I imagine it's windy where you are, with a notable wind shear about 5-6 feet off the ground...

  2. Re:O No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bing returns slightly more relevant results than Google.

    This just means his sample was porn searches.

  3. Re:O No by vux984 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really? So Bing is better for pr0n? Time to invest in Microsoft. :)