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	Search Engine Showdown with Blind search tool

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8-10-2009 8:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8d290404-3f36-42b3-a31f-b5e9f1a7b836/7F7D7975-A01A-4293-898F-2609D8DB554D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/"><DIV class="post_header snap_nopreview"><A title="Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test?" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/">Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test?</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techcrunch.com/img/08A27CA8-46EB-4053-8672-6096664E369D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/">Have you tried out this <A href="http://blindsearch.fejus.com">blind search tool</A> yet? It provides results from Google, Yahoo and Bing in three columns but doesn’t tell you which column is which search engine</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/"><P>A few search engine experts we’ve spoken with over the years say that users tend to think Google results are better just because they’re from Google. If you take any search engine and put the logo on top, it tests better. So Yahoo results with a Google logo will always test better than, say, Google results with the Yahoo or Bing logo. People are just used to thinking about Google as the best search.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/"><P>This search tool strips out all the branding, so you’re forced to really think about which results you like better. And <A href="http://blogoscoped.com/forum/155714.html">early results</A> showed a much more even distribution than Google’s 70% market share would suggest: Google: 44%, Bing: 33%, Yahoo: 23%.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/">The score keeping feature was removed when people found a way to game it, but you can still run the test against yourself</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F7D7975-A01A-4293-898F-2609D8DB554D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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