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MaliA
 Post subject: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:49 
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http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

Type in your search query, then vote for the one out of the three that gave you the best results. Pretty interesting, as the new MS offering seems to be pretty sharp.

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Cras
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:04 
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Interesting. 3/3 for Bing for me.

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Zardoz
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:13 
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2/3 Bing result for me.

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Plissken
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 16:25 
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It's going to be a Microsoft site, isn't it?

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The Rev Owen
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 16:26 
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I haven't voted Bing yet, but I am surprised that Yahoo! seems to be beating Google for me.

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Cras
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 16:29 
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Plissken wrote:
It's going to be a Microsoft site, isn't it?


The guy works for MS but says it's a personal project.

To be honest, the fact that it shows you three sets of results then you pick the best one before it reveals which is which suggests that the only way for it to be biased would be for it to outright lie, which would be unlikely.

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TheVision
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 16:39 
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I got one vote for each! Very interesting though... Although I couldn't really spot any major difference, Google does seem to be slightly behind the other two.
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myp
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 17:09 
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I couldn't tell the difference and picked one of each.

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Curiosity
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 17:16 
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3/3 on Google for me.

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Cras
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 17:19 
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myp wrote:
I couldn't tell the difference and picked one of each.


It switches the order around.

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myp
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 17:20 
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O RLY? Thx.

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 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
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Twonk.

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Curiosity
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 17:22 
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Curiosity wrote:
3/3 on Google for me.


Incidentally, the searches Google won on were:

"Craster badgers"

"Malia mighty pirate"

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"Westboro Rapists"

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Grim...
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:28 
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2 for Bing, one for Yahoo!. Bad Google!

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Grim...
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:36 
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I am going to switch my Firefox default search engine to Bing. Let's see how long until I switch back to Google, like I normally do.

Join in, chums!

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Grim...
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:37 
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Actually, it's clear to me that the best search engine to use is this blind one, that brings back all three sets of results.

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Zardoz
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:44 
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Very true.

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TheVision
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:49 
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Does anyone in the world use Lycos anymore? I just checked and it's still there... but it's so 1998!
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myp
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
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TheVision wrote:
Does anyone in the world use Lycos anymore? I just checked and it's still there... but it's so 1998!

See also Altavista (which I use for images as Google images is blocked from work).

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Grim...
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:01 
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Altavista is owned by Yahoo! now. I think it's just a different skin on the Yahoo! search engine.

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Grim...
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:04 
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Ha! It's better than that:
Wikikiki wrote:
In 1996, AltaVista became the exclusive provider of search results for Yahoo!. In 1998, Digital was sold to Compaq and in 1999, Compaq relaunched AltaVista as a web portal, hoping to compete with Yahoo!.
[...]
In June 1999, Compaq sold a majority stake in AltaVista to CMGI, an internet investment company.[9]
[...]
In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc.[12] In July 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!.[13]

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MaliA
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:10 
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Grim... wrote:
Ha! It's better than that:
Wikikiki wrote:
In 1996, AltaVista became the exclusive provider of search results for Yahoo!. In 1998, Digital was sold to Compaq and in 1999, Compaq relaunched AltaVista as a web portal, hoping to compete with Yahoo!.
[...]
In June 1999, Compaq sold a majority stake in AltaVista to CMGI, an internet investment company.[9]
[...]
In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc.[12] In July 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!.[13]


Awesome.

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kalmar
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 15:31 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8092549.stm

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Global Language Monitor (GLM) searches the internet for newly coined terms, and once a word or phrase has been used 25,000 times, it recognises it.

GLM said Web 2.0 beat out the terms Jai ho, N00b and slumdog to take top spot.


Hmm.
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Cras
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
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Jai ho?

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Grim...
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WTF is Jai ho?

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Grim...
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 15:33 
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Hmm - "May you have victory always". WTF?

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kalmar
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
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Pussycat dolls single innit?

Jay ho.
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Cras
 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
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Quote:
Jai Ho" is an Academy Award-winning Hindi song composed by A. R. Rahman, written by Gulzar, and performed by Sukhwinder Singh and Rahman, for the end credits of the film Slumdog Millionaire

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 Post subject: Re: Search Engines
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