Comments on: Bing is an Improvement over Live, but Still Not Google Quality: Evaluating Bing With Mechanical Turk

By: gino

gino — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:17:08 +0000

I’d like to know if someone has already carried out a blind test on search engine results.

It could be very interesting to ask users which results are considered best without knowing the name of the search engine that produced that particular SERP. This could avoid the risk that users’ opinions could be influenced by brand related ‘noise’.

Obviously the results could be compared only on a semantic basis, but I think that the statistical reliability could be significantly better.

By: Buy Insanity

Buy Insanity — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:57:48 +0000

Thank you for hosting such a useful website. Your blog is not just useful but also very creative too. We find only few bloggers who can create not so easy content that creatively. we search for content about something like this. I went over dozens of websites to acquire knowhow regarding this.Keep writing in !!

By: Google Local Business Directory

Google Local Business Directory — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:35:05 +0000

When Bing was first released, the analytics data clearly showed a measurable trend towards it being used, but lately the analytics figures indicates that the novelty has worn off and that the initial velocity is not being sustained. I myself briefly flirted with Bing and inevitably ended up using Google again…..

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:35:29 +0000

Bing is currently dropping sites and pages like theres no tomorrow (just like MSN always has done)i’ve noticed this with several sites.. they do come back though in the majority of cases.
Bing is a joke.. the all new search engine, yet behaves exactly the same as MSN and returns the same results.

By: Santiago

Santiago — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:29:06 +0000

Hi, I´ve contacted you by email some days ago and did not have any feedback. My email address is in the email box

By: bset

bset — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:02:34 +0000

Similar to the experiment using 100 random queries, here is another example of the same type, where users can plugin their queries and select the most relevant search engine themselves. bset.royans.net

Google and Yahoo both seem to be much better than Bing, though Google is a leader by a long margin. Whats also interesting is that, it looks like different search engines might be better for different types of content ( or could be based on location, language)

By: LisaStratus

LisaStratus — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:00:39 +0000

Very much a prompt reply :)

By: rourbboob

rourbboob — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:58:13 +0000

visit us!
newsbox.cc
newsbox.us
nbstatus.wordpress.com
NOW!

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:18:36 +0000

@Offbeatmammal: The problem with Blind Search is that the search engine used to retrieve each column of results in clearly marked in the page’s source code. Anyone who can use “View Source” can check which column is which and vote accordingly.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:03:58 +0000

Hi Anil,

I had to write a post on this topic after reading yours. Here’s a link: http://blog.gadodia.net/bing-vs-google-no-fancy-analytics-pure-personal-experience/