Bing Beats Yahoo and Closes in on Google! Try Bing!

Jun 8, 2009 by Abbas

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It’s been a week since Bing is launched and we read how it is better than Microsoft’s previous efforts to make a mark in the search industry.

Every time a new search engine is launched the quality of the results is compared with Google, Yahoo, etc. its human to do that as 80% of the search users are used to Googling rather than Binging!

For this purpose Michael Kordahi has come up with a service which shows results from Yahoo, Google and Bing but does not show the name of the search engine, he called it Blind Search [link]. The page lets you vote for the best results after which it shows the name of the search engine.

This way the brand of the search engine does not make a difference as users don’t get to see which search engine they are voting for and trust me most often than not it’s a close call!

Blind Search initially showed the voting results however the developer took the results off as few users figured out a way to game the system.

From the last updates on the results, Google was leading with 43%, Bing 32% and Yahoo trailing with 25% votes.

I think Bing did pretty good for itself. Microsoft now has a good platform they can call "Search Engine", I hope to see them build on the existing technology.

Click here to visit Blind Search.