- Search Engine Relevancy. A Call to Arms
Date: 2005-01-25 Source: The Search Lounge
even if a report is released saying that an engine is the most relevant as judged by a fully objective, scientific study, the counterattacks from the other engines will be swift, immediate, and oftentimes legitimate. The media would be awash with a blizzard of PR releases explaining why the test was incorrect, why the winner did not really win, and why the losing engine is actually more relevant and getting better every day.
[Open In New Window] - The Increasing Relevance of Relevancy
Date: 2004-11-17 Source: iMedia Connection
While the search engines compete fiercely with each other to deliver an ever more relevant crop of search results to the user, relevance itself turns out to be surprisingly hard to measure. This is because the very concept is highly subjective.
[Open In New Window] - Exploring Search Engine Overlap
Date: 2004-04-28 Source: SearchDay
Think all search engines provide essentially the same results? Think again. A new comparison tool shows that the major search engines have surprisingly little overlap, even for popular search terms.
[Open In New Window] - Sizing up the search competition
Date: 2003-08-28 Source: News.com
The contest is only the latest between Google and Overture and reflects sharp competition in the industry. Search providers have long played copycat on index size and features, but the stakes have gone up, as Web search has become a big moneymaker for Web portals and search specialists alike. The search ad business is expected to ring up sales of $2 billion this year, according to research.
[Open In New Window] - Freshness Showdown
Date: 2003-05-17 Source: Search Engine Showdown
Based on the results of actual searches, this analysis compares the search engines in terms of freshness and how current they are.
[Open In New Window] - Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test
Date: 2003-04-17 Source: SearchDay
In December, I called for search engines to get beyond the hype of who is biggest or freshest and develop a commonly-accepted means of measuring actual relevancy. Now, the first such third-part test like this in ages has been done.
[Open In New Window] - Google Dominates New Size Showdowns
Date: 2003-01-16 Source: Search Engine Showdown
Despite the efforts of several competitors, Google stayed solidly in the lead and for the first time since I've been doing these comparisons, Google ranked first on every one of the 25 searches.
[Open In New Window] - Relative Size Showdown
Date: 2002-12-31 Source: Search Engine Showdown
Based on the results of actual searches, this page presents the search engines with their comparative sizes.
[Open In New Window] - Google is bigger than AlltheWeb...Again
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Date: 2002-11-07 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
Once again Google is bigger than AlltheWeb. At least for the next few months anyway! Google's front page now shows over 3 billion pages indexed. But what does that mean for us?
[Open In New Window] - AlltheWeb trick shows the reality
Date: 2002-09-16 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
I can tell you absolutely, categorically, probably that AlltheWeb updated 1236 web pages in its index to this point in time today! I can tell you AlltheWeb's index is actually only 2,031,990,360 pages big. How? Read More...
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