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Search engine comparison
In this article we will compare the top 4 of the biggest search eninges ordered by market share. These four engines that will be compared are:
Google
Yahoo!
MSN Live search
Ask
In this small search engine comparison we will test with a quoted string and in future comparisons we will summarize with unquoted and some other types.
Instead of testing the results on a very popular term such as “news” we will use something more odd to see the differences more brightly. We will not manually review wich results that are the best but we will try to see the major differences between the results.
Let’s start with the quoted string “20th century furniture”.
Here are the following results for the term in the search eninges we measured (Only top 5 to shorten it):
Google:
R 20th Century Design: Midcentury modern designer furniture Mid-century design, furniture, objects, gallery and research. www.r20thcentury.com/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this 20th Century Furniture 20th Century Furniture specialises in an international selection of unique and collectable lighting, furniture and objects from the mid century modern ... www.20thcenturyfurniture.ie/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this 20th Century Furniture, 20th Century Furniture History, 20th ... 20th Century Furniture Designers and Furniture History. Individual designers showing their part in furniture design history. Find some examples of chairs ... www.interiordezine.com/index.cfm/20th_Century_Furniture_History - 32k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this Fears and Kahn 1950's, 60's, & 70's furniture and accessories ... Mod furniture and accessories. 1950 thru 1980 designer and non designer items available. Pop plastics, space age, and modern. www.fearsandkahn.co.uk/ - 3k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this 20th Century Furniture and Decorative Arts 20th century furniture offered by this department of Bonhams & Butterfields includes the designs of Tiffany, Charles Eames, George Nelson, Louis Sullivan, ... www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=uSA&screen=20thCenturyDecoUSA - 43k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
The Yahoo! results:
R Gallery International selection of lighting and furniture from the mid-century modern movement. www.r20thcentury.com - 10k - Cached 20th Century Furniture Latest In Stock. Services. Rentals. Delivery. Finding Service. Upholstery & Repairs ... www.20thcenturyfurniture.ie - 9k - Cached 20th Century Furniture, 20th Century Furniture History, 20th Century ... 20th Century Furniture Designers and Furniture History. Individual designers ... 20th Century Furniture Contents Gerrit Rietveld Bauhaus Mies van der Rohe Marcel ... www.interiordezine.com/index.cfm/20th_Century_Furniture_History - 31k - Cached =20TH CENTURY DESIGN GALLERY= Xavier's 20th Century Furniture features modern furniture and accessories from the 50's, 60's, Arts & Cratfs and Art Deco period. www.x20th.com - 5k - Cached 20th Century Furniture at Shopping.com Find 20th Century Furniture stores, compare 20th Century Furniture prices. Shopping.com helps shoppers find, compare, and buy anything in just seconds www.shopping.com/xGS-20th_Century_Furniture
MSN Live search results:
Mark Frisman Modern Furniture 20th century furniture designed by Edward Wormley, Robsjohn-Gibbings, Harvey Probber, Tommi Parzinger, Karl Springer. www.markfrisman.com Untitled Document 20th Century furniture, lighting and accessories from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. www.industriandesign.com Palumbo - 20th Century Furniture & Objects Reissued line of Parzinger originals and home furnishings. www.palumbogallery.com 20th Century Furniture, 20th Century Furniture History, 20th Century ... 20th Century Furniture Designers and Furniture History. Individual designers showing their part in furniture design history. Find some examples of chairs and tables created by the ... www.interiordezine.com/index.cfm/20th_Century_ Furniture_History Modern Living USA - Vintage home furnishings Sales of 20th century furniture, lighting and home accessories. www.modernlivingusa.com
ASK results:
Galerie Patrick Seguin | 20th Century Furniture & Architecture Galerie Patrick Seguin specializes in 20th Century Furniture & Architecture. It features works by Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre ... www.patrickseguin.com/ GOMOD :: Modern Furniture Classics, Vintage Design Modern furniture and design resource featuring shops selling Mid-Century modern, post-modern, Art Deco, 60's Pop and contemporary modern furnishings. www.gomod.com/ Lyons Antiques Specializing in antique 18th, 19th AND 20th century American, European, Renaissance, and Gothic furniture,as well as bronzes, and Royal Dux and ... www.lyonsantiques.com/ Victorian Furniture, European Furniture, Renaissance Furniture, ... Specializing in antique 18th, 19th AND 20th century American, European, Renaissance, and Gothic furniture,as well as bronzes, and Royal Dux and ... www.lyonsantiques.com/inventory.html Stevens Antiques 19th and early 20th century antique furniture and accessories, lighting and paintings. Photos, descriptions, location and contact details. www.stevensantiques.com/
Google: 2 with the string “20th century” in domain, three of top five has exact string in the title, one of them as all all three words in title and one of them only has “furniture”.
Three of the sites uses meta tags, which could indicate that google is using the tags less then the concurents. However, since Yahoo has results that are similar and they are known to use it, google could use it as well. One result only has 15 not so strong inlinks to the whole domain while sites places later have more then five hundred links that are both related and strong. We knows it’s weird, but in this case the inlinks didn’t seem to be valued this great.
+ Domain, title
Yahoo: Three of them has exact string in title, one of them has exact string in domain and one of them has “20thcentury” in url. Has about the same results as google which proves that they are quite close in their search-engine technology.
+ Domain, title
MSN: Two of them has exact string in title. One of the sites has the whole string in the URL.
One of the titles are “Untitled document”.
Acts pretty weird when having a untitled document in top 3 which is under construction. It does look like MSN weights meta keywords and description pretty much as they are used in four of the sites.
+ Meta keywords and description
ASK: One has the exact string in title, the rest are just furniture inspirated. None of them have furniture in the URL.
Seem to use both meta keywords and description as all five top results pretty uses keywords and descriptions heavily.
+ Meta keywords and description
Top 3 in google and yahoo is exactly the same and one of these appear in the MSN results, but none of them appear anymore. One interesting result is that Google, Yahoo and MSN had one MFA(Made for adsense) site in top three, which used both meta keywords, meta description, title in URL (double times exact string and three times “20th century”) and spammed “20th century furniture” pretty much in text using bold. The spammy MFA site has a couple of good inlinks but generally don’t that much.
