Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Dogpile Tool Compares Major Search Results

Think all search is the same?

www.comparesearchengines.dogpile.com

This is a nifty little tool that will show you a Venn diagram of what search results actually overlap between the majors-- Google, MSN, Yahoo, and AskJeeves. Surprisingly, or not, there are very few similarities. Much of the search results between all the search engines come up as unique, meaning what? That each of them uses a slightly different algorithm or criteria to sort the results.

(I actually took the time to check it myself--feeling very critical this evening. Yep, very few duplicates-- although I was just testing the first page of results for each.)