Thursday, December 16, 2010

Search Engine or Decision Engine?

It's Google versus Bing, with Yahoo as the control group.  Four simple search strings were entered into each engine. The total results returned in each search were recorded.

The strings were precisely...
  • google sucks
  • bing sucks
  • microsoft sucks
  • linux sucks
...the resulting search tallies were recorded,

                    Google                       Bing                    Yahoo
Google sucks 3,380,000 15,300,000 15,800,000
Bing sucks 1,270,000 932,000 988,000
Microsoft sucks 837,000 6,970,000 7,490,000
Linux sucks 2,730,000 4,250,000 4,230,000

and charted...

Whilst not terribly scientific, the graph appears to show more 'opinion' in the disproportionate results than 'factual' data.  That's just my opinion...born out of boredom, and a need to make a decision on my own.