I came across this website this morning and thought it would make a fun experiment. In the spirit of blind taste tests like Coke vs Pepsi, one website has set up a Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo. In this blind test, is your favorite search engine the one that reigns supreme? I tested it with 10 random searches I’ve done lately and listed next to it the website that won each blind test. Read on for the results…
Search test/result
1) Google Voice deleted from App Store/Google
2) Palm Pre review/Google
3) Dog care/Yahoo
4) 2010 Prius/Google
5) Seattle hotels/Yahoo
6) Local Weather (my zip code)/Yahoo
7) Cheap flights/Google
8) Pork chop recipe/Google
9) Brandeis University/Bing
10) Wineries in New Jersey/Bing
So Google wins it, but hardly a landslide…Bing looked weaker at first, but then came back strong at the end. My criteria in voting for a website was pretty subjective; if I searched for a review, I didn’t want the official product website. If the first 3 hits were variations on the same website, I immediately eliminated it. After that, I just went with what looked more useful. Google is my usual search engine of choice, though I think I might switch it up for variety now that I’ve seen all 3 side by side!
Highly subjective within the blind test, but there you go…now, you try! Let us know below if there were any surprises when you saw the results!
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