53.2 F
Los Angeles
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Trump Lawyer Resigns One Day Before Trial To Begin

Joseph Tacopina has filed with the courts that he will not represent Donald J. Trump. The E. Jean Carroll civil case is schedule to begin Tuesday January 16,...

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan Issues Order RE Postponement

On May 9, 2023, a jury found Donald J. Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation. The jury awarded Ms. Carroll $5 million in damages. Seven months ago,...

ASUS Announces 2023 Vivobook Classic Series

On April 7, 2023, ASUS introduced five new models in the 2023 Vivobook Classic series of laptops. The top laptops in the series use the 13th Gen Intel® Core™...
StaffIncremental BloggerSearch results experiment

Search results experiment

Robert Scoble points to this interesting search engine experiment. Put in something you are searching for, the search results for three search engines will appear (unlabelled), you pick which one you think is most relavent.

I searched for “Tablet PC” and picked the Google search results.

I probably shouldn’t have searched for “Tablet PC.” I’ve searched for it so many times on a variety of search engines that I fairly sure which results were from Google and which were from MSN. I don’t think this tainted my choice of which results were the most relavent, but it might have.

Also, the test page only lists the top three hits. I generally don’t focus on the top three. I might expect the top one to be an exact match if I’m focusing on something very specific, such as a function name, however, otherwise I tend to scan the first page of hits. I also take into account not just how good the link is, but the text excerpt with it. This is where Google has done very well and I see MSN getting better and better.

So far in the experiment, Google is ahead with Yahoo second and MSN third.

Loren
Lorenhttp://www.lorenheiny.com
Loren Heiny (1961 - 2010) was a software developer and author of several computer language textbooks. He graduated from Arizona State University in computer science. His first love was robotics.

Latest news

Related news