Comments on: Return To The Search Engine Shoot-Out http://searchengineland.com/return-to-the-search-engine-shoot-out-11125 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: websearchlady http://searchengineland.com/return-to-the-search-engine-shoot-out-11125/comment-page-1#comment-2280 websearchlady Fri, 04 May 2007 06:09:40 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/return-to-the-search-engine-shoot-out-11125.php#comment-2280 <p>Phil, I had come to a <a href="http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog/archives/006092.html" rel="nofollow">similar conclusion</a> about the shoot-out article. Several engines were missing - Exalead as you mentioned. But the natural language search engines, such as Hakia, were not covered. A more interesting study would be to test Hakia against Google and Yahoo. I also thought there were odd groupings. I wouldn't have placed the Congoo web search with make-and-share services of Rollyo and Prefound. Lastly, I would not have included Altavista or Alltheweb in the shootout at all. They almost always return the same results as Yahoo and it's a puzzle to understand how either could score better than Yahoo in any test - and certainly not the very plain and now featureless Altavista. Speaking of which, I enjoyed your <a href="http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm" rel="nofollow">Which-search-engine-when</a> page but I'm surprised that you too favour Altavista. </p> Phil, I had come to a similar
conclusion about the shoot-out article. Several engines were missing – Exalead
as you mentioned. But the natural
language search engines, such as Hakia, were not covered. A more interesting study would be to test Hakia against Google and Yahoo.

I also thought there were odd groupings. I wouldn’t have placed the Congoo web search with make-and-share services of Rollyo and Prefound.

Lastly, I would not have included Altavista or Alltheweb in the shootout at all. They almost always return the same results as Yahoo and it’s a puzzle to understand how either could score better than Yahoo in any test – and certainly not the very plain and now featureless Altavista. Speaking of which, I enjoyed your Which-search-engine-when page but I’m surprised that you too favour Altavista.

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