Google V Yahoo Results
Posted in Random, Ubuntu on 03/05/2010 02:32 pm by Laura CzajkowskiI had a very boring lunch hour today, made yummy scrambled eggs with ham on toast and a large mug of tea. Now what, not in the mood to go out side as I may not come back in it’s so sunny out there.
I was curious on the Yahoo V Google search so decided to have some fun at lunch, though as one of the charming folks in the #ubuntu-uk channel “If that’s what you call fun … sheesh”. Anyway I chose 4 things very simply Laura Czajkowski, Ossbarcamp and something not related to me but I enjoy Ubuntu UK Podcast and finally I asked in channel for a topic any topic, “Pubs” was the final one. The reason behind the first two topics was I was curious what the results would be and had an idea already what Google would return. The final two were just random ones that I could compare the results from.
I’m a little shocked over the disparaging results returned. At present I run Karmic, and once I get a chance will upgrade my laptop run lucid and then switch to Yahoo for a while as long as results improve as at present the results aren’t great for yahoo compared to Google.
Laura Czajkowski Google Results
Laura Czajkowski Yahoo Results
Ossbarcamp Google Results
Ossbarcamp Yahoo Results
UUPC Google Results
UUPC Yahoo Results
Pubs Google Results
Pubs Yahoo Results
All of the results in a larger form are HERE
03/05/2010 at 2:41 PM
If you want to see what the ‘new user’ gets then you might also want to create a brand new user on the system (so there are no cookies for Google or Yahoo) and run the test again
Bang goes another lunch hour!
03/05/2010 at 4:38 PM
You may be interested in giving this a try: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
03/05/2010 at 6:39 PM
Are you serious?
What kind of test is this?
I know.. self-centered test. If your name does not match you, then the search is wrong.
Try Andrew suggestion, and look for something useful like how to encrypt hard drives in Ubuntu. You will see the difference.
Google is the best search engine. I mean period.
03/05/2010 at 8:16 PM
@popey up will do
@Andrew interesting not heard of that shall look into it. Thanks
@humanbeings right for starters Google was clearly the better return for results you may have missed that. Secondly I wanted to compare something I knew the results, so yes my name! Then I chose an event I run as I wanted to see what would be returned given peoples choices for a search engine. The other 2 searches were just random and I wanted to see what was given back.. I just did this at lunch time as I was curious.
03/05/2010 at 9:10 PM
@laura
your post offers almost no insight/evalutation of the search results. I can see how @humanbeings was confused.
“I will once I upgrade my laptop run lucid and switch to Yahoo for a while as long as results improve.”
That sure seems to suggest that you think yahoo results are better. is that not the case?
03/05/2010 at 10:10 PM
@nick clarified the above, the post was written in haste and your right could have been worded better. Thanks
03/06/2010 at 12:58 PM
and what if we got results from both with a free web search engine : http://www.seeks-project.info/search_exp.php/websearch-hp
03/07/2010 at 7:13 AM
What surprised me was how different the Google and Yahoo results are. Many people spend a lot of time trying to improve their “Google Ranking”, I have never heard of anyone spending time on improving their “Yahoo Ranking”.
Maybe some more diversity would be good for us.
03/24/2010 at 7:38 PM
Where are Úrsula Cristina Junque aka Ursinha?