There are a few resources that have popped up in the last few days that allow you to compare searches from the major engines in a blind taste testing exercise. The first one that I came across was Blind Search. Run a search and get a three column set of results - simply choose the one set of results that you're happiest with. You'll then see the engines popped up afterwards; Bing, Google or Yahoo. You have to keep a note of the engine that you like the best, since a tally option that the site originally had has now been removed.
The second engine, which just displays two screens from Bing and Google is called Bingandgoogle which doesn't score much for originality, but is very accurate. Bingle does exactly the same job and you cannot really tell the two apart; the only difference being that you can switch results entirely to one search engine or the other.
Of course, if you don't like any of these you can always try Tripleme which does a search across Yahoo, Google and MSN Live (which I'm guessing is pulling results from Bing).
GrabAll allows you to compare two pane results for Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing, DMOZ, AltaVista, Gigablast and Looksmart.
Scour lets you check out results from Google, Yahoo and Bing with a nice sort option.
Searchboth will compare results from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, MetaCrawler, AltaVista, Looksmart and Websearch again in a two pane window approach.
Soovle takes a different approach by providing on page access to Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Answers, Yahoo, Bing and YouTube, Type in your keyword and Soovle comes up with alternative terms - click on any of them and your search will be run on the appropriate engine.
The second engine, which just displays two screens from Bing and Google is called Bingandgoogle which doesn't score much for originality, but is very accurate. Bingle does exactly the same job and you cannot really tell the two apart; the only difference being that you can switch results entirely to one search engine or the other.
Of course, if you don't like any of these you can always try Tripleme which does a search across Yahoo, Google and MSN Live (which I'm guessing is pulling results from Bing).
GrabAll allows you to compare two pane results for Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing, DMOZ, AltaVista, Gigablast and Looksmart.
Scour lets you check out results from Google, Yahoo and Bing with a nice sort option.
Searchboth will compare results from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, MetaCrawler, AltaVista, Looksmart and Websearch again in a two pane window approach.
Soovle takes a different approach by providing on page access to Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Answers, Yahoo, Bing and YouTube, Type in your keyword and Soovle comes up with alternative terms - click on any of them and your search will be run on the appropriate engine.
Very cool! I've been using PolyMeta (searches Ask, Bing, Cuil, Google, & Yahoo!), and conducting an informal comparison every time I search. These search tools do the job much more quickly, simply and elegantly.
Will add all to my Internet Searching list. Thanks much.
alaJoAnn
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Posted by: alaJoAnn | June 16, 2009 at 02:15 AM
Hey thanks for telling us about Bingle! I had no clue that even existed. Blind Search looks pretty cool as well. Anyway, great post and hope to read more from you soon.
Posted by: PPC Management Service | July 09, 2009 at 05:39 PM