Google, Yahoo, and BIng
Many people want to know what the "best" search engine is. Capturing about 95% of searches in the United States are three major players: Google, Yahoo, and Bing. While the answer to that question will always be subjective, I will attempt to answer the underlying question of "Which search engine seems to generate the most relevant results?" To do this I will perform three common searches and evaluate the results. The searches will be:
- Lou Gehrig's Disease
This is a medical condition known as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The idea here is to be able to evaluate the level of medical information as well as how well irrelevant information (such as that about Lou Gehrig the person and baseball player) is discarded.
- Weather
This search will provide me with how well the search engine can aticipate my desired request, assuming that I want the current weather for my area.
- unemployment news
This will test the respective engines' news feeds for a particular topic. Specifically I will be looking for recent, informative pages on the subject.
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