Plutonians are teh s uck ([info]krick) wrote,
@ 2006-06-08 11:43:00
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Fun with search engines
Just for fun, open your favorite search engine and search for "http" (without the quotes).

In google...
http://www.google.com/search?q=http
...the top hits (of 11,730,000,000) are:
#1 www.microsoft.com
#2 www.w3.org

In MSN...
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=http
...the top hits (of 5,257,741,222) are:
#1 www.digidesign.com
#2 www.coldstonecreamery.com

In Yahoo!...
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=http
...the top hits (of 1,490,000,000) are:
#1 www.w3.org/Protocols
#2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP


It looks like in this search, Yahoo comes up with the most relevant results. In fact, it looks like 9 out of the top 10 Yahoo results are valid. MSN is is outright retarded. None of their top 10 have anything to do with HTTP. Google has one result that has to do with HTTP (#3), the rest are seemingly random.

Try some other search engines and reply with your findings.

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[info]shmivejournal
2006-06-08 04:16 pm UTC (link)
if you click on google scholar, you're good to go, though.

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[info]krick
2006-06-08 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Still, the search results in Google Scholar aren't as valid as the ones returned by Yahoo's search. 4 of the top 10 Google Scholar results aren't really valid.

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[info]shmivejournal
2006-06-08 05:00 pm UTC (link)
I thiiiink it might be because yahoo doesn't make a claim that their search results aren't monkeyed with by humans, whereas google does.

I don't know anything about MSN and anybody who uses it deserves to be confused, as far as I am concerned.


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[info]krick
2006-06-19 04:06 am UTC (link)
After I made this post in my LJ, I emailed google about it. I just checked today and the results are much more valid. Seems like I have a little pull over at google.

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