It looks like MSN Search

is on now, so a comparison is possible. I thought I’d compare using a very relevant search using the terms “alberto gonzales” at the senate.gov site. The results from MSN were shocking in their sparseness – it only returned 6 hits. The results from Google turned up 112 hits. Just in case, I used the graphical tuners to make sure MSN wasn’t just presenting me with a subset based on my initial (default) settings, but that didn’t change anything. From where I sit, turning up but 5% of the results is quite a failure for the Microsoft search.

3 comments ↓

#1 Zeke on 11.12.04 at 9:51 am

Howdy!

Yes, I did a search for “Zeke’s Gallery” (with the quotes, and while there were a bunch of hits, my blog was nowhere to be found.

I sent ‘em a bug report, we’ll see what happens.

#2 John Kane on 11.14.04 at 7:05 pm

In response to your comment to a posing of Scoble, you can do side-by-side searches of Google and Yahoo Search as well as Google and Teoma Search results at http://www.googleguy.de

John

#3 Michael on 11.14.04 at 11:05 pm

Thanks John!

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