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Which search engine should you use?

Jun 27th 2005
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Pitting Google, Yahoo, MSN against the more focused engines like Answers.com and Ask.com.

Looks like search engines have a long way to go before they can truly mine relevant bits of information.

An Associated Press writer had a go at the leading search engines — Yahoo, Google, MSN — against the more focused ones like Answers.com from GuruNet, Ask.com.

Wonder why Vivisimo was not included, its clustering technology is the cat’s pajamas. In my own makeshift test, testing all the questions mentioned in the above review, Vivisimo and Clusty threw excellent answers for pretty much every question. Good reason why I’m now an addicted convert.




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  1. ed girth

    Clusty is the cat’s pajamas! The link to that news article is broken though.

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