MSN Search vs. Google
For the first time in some years, I have found some other search engine give better results than Google. These images are a proof that MSN Search gave better results (at least for me) than Google for this particular search term.
While I am on this topic: I guess it is not possible to please everybody with the same set of results or the order of results. Personalized search is going to be absolutely essential, and Google already has that option. However, the worrying part is that Google stores the complete history of your searches on its servers. I wonder if there is any way to get around that...
While I am on this topic: I guess it is not possible to please everybody with the same set of results or the order of results. Personalized search is going to be absolutely essential, and Google already has that option. However, the worrying part is that Google stores the complete history of your searches on its servers. I wonder if there is any way to get around that...
posted by Anand | 12:44 AM
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A cricket comment analogy:
Someone once said that the difference between a good player/team and a great player/team is that people remember the success of a good one and failures of the great one.
This is one thing that I use to defend Sachin whenever someone starts listing his failures and dares to compare him with a a couple of innings by Yuvi or Kaif.
I am not equating MSN to Yuvi but google will be my favourite for a long long time. If Google is Sachin, MSN is Sehwag. Sure the latter can perform better at times but it is inspired by the former :)
I completely agree with you about Sachin. However, the analogy is flawed: Sachin is a great player does not imply that he will always remain great. In the same way, it is possible for some other search engine to start doing better. BUT, as I said, your analogy is a bit flawed. Do search engines have an age after which they start to sputter? Not very likely, right? (unlike cricketers).
But my example (just one of many that I have encountered) makes me want to try out all the search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo! etc.) at the same time. Maybe a website, which lists the top 10 from each search engine (removing duplicates) might be a better option than using one particular search engine. Maybe, there are some websites out there that do exactly this...I just don't know about them.
However, the analogy is flawed: Sachin is a great player does not imply that he will always remain great.
He might lose form, he might not be what he used to be, but he will always be a great player. Just like Vivian Richards.
I said, your analogy is a bit flawed. Do search engines have an age after which they start to sputter? Not very likely, right?
Of course, the analogy was in current context. Anyway, once upon a time, I used to think that altavista was the most useful website on the internet, so you never know :)
Just an update: there is a website that does collect the results from the various search engines. http://www.dogpile.com/
However, from a quick glance, it seems to have some issues. The results that it shows from Google are not ordered in the same way as Google's results. Also, the summary that it gives contains duplicates in the results list. Anyway, but I guess it is already a bit popular. I got to know about it from a colleague of mine.
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