Comments on: Compare Google Yahoo Bing http://irgupf.com/2009/06/08/compare-google-yahoo-bing/ Information Retrieval Research, Issues, and Discussion Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Bob Carpenter http://irgupf.com/2009/06/08/compare-google-yahoo-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-2522 Bob Carpenter Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:47:59 +0000 http://irgupf.com/?p=681#comment-2522 I did my own evaluations using my real searches over a day or two and found Bing and Google neck-and-neck, with some clear advantages one way or the other in verticals (Bing on travel, Google on software). What surprised me on the blind searches is that Yahoo! does so well. I was wondering about bias the other way around, when I started using Google syntax on Bing. I realized Bing was pretty much forced into doing things Google's way to support existing search habits. I did my own evaluations using my real searches over a day or two and found Bing and Google neck-and-neck, with some clear advantages one way or the other in verticals (Bing on travel, Google on software). What surprised me on the blind searches is that Yahoo! does so well.

I was wondering about bias the other way around, when I started using Google syntax on Bing. I realized Bing was pretty much forced into doing things Google’s way to support existing search habits.

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