PC World decided to find the best search engine for various different types of searches.
In all, they tested 55 different services, across six categories, using ten keywords over a 3 week period.
While Google was overall the best solution, Yahoo-owned AlltheWeb kicked its butt when it came to straight text searching!
Here are the results from the 6 categories.
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David Dalka Says:
April 27th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Interesting data. I haven’t used some of those engines in quite some time.
BTW…The Local Search Link leads to a white screen when I click it.
Brian Chappell Says:
April 27th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Same with image search and blog search. Those pages seem to be down.
whats up in search, search industry news » Joe Whyte - Seo Consulting - Rockyfied Says:
April 27th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
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