Search Engines’ Test Beds
In Search of… Better Ways to Search at the Wall Street Journal goes through the different ways search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com use “spin off” sites to test new features. We have reported about all these in the past, but the article offers a nice overview of many of the methods search […]
Barry Schwartz on January 19, 2007 at 8:50 am | Reading time: 1 minute
In Search of… Better Ways to Search at the Wall Street Journal goes through the different ways search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com use “spin off” sites to test new features. We have reported about all these in the past, but the article offers a nice overview of many of the methods search engines test features.
- Google’s Test Site: SearchMash.com
- Yahoo’s Test Sites: AllTheWeb and AltaVista
- Microsoft’s Test Site: Ms Dewey
- Ask.com’s Test Site: Ask X
The search engines also constantly test out new features to a subset of their users on their main sites.
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.