Tuesday, June 16, 2009

BlindSearch



I welcomed the arrival of bing, Microsoft's "answer" to GOOGLE search.  Not because GOOGLE is flawed, but because it's so good that everyone uses it.  That could be a problem in this information age, if it became enthralled by one ideology, and that's precisely what I see happening.  Moveon.org and Kos mastered the art of manipulating which stories appear at the top of search results, and Google is top heavy with lefties.  Blah-blah, that aside, Blind Search asks for your input, and delivers the results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo, in changing column order.   Pick the list that best satisfies you, and the search engine is revealed. 

To test it, I used "ACORN."  I'm guessing here, but that guess is that 95% of all ACORN queries are looking for information concerning charges of improper voter registrations, or other criminality. Just my opinion. My results were:

  1. Yahoo yielded two hits, Inside Obama's Acorn by Stanley Kurtz on National Review Online, and  Rotten ACORN :: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.  But they appeared 6th and 7th in the list of results.
  2. Bing produced one, the Stanley Kurtz article, but as the seventh entry.
  3. Google - No negative ACORN hits in the displayed list.
In real life, I use the GROOWE search bar that lets me scroll through all search engines.  Bing has been the default for 10 days, or so, with Google option two.  Bing claims to make intelligent choices, and in practice it reminds me of  letting TIVO guess what to record for you. Poop.  I find myself going to Google about half the time, but that may be because I'm not that comfortable with Bing's interface and display yet.  See what you think.  I plucked this off Drudge, but haven't read it.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those rat-bastards ought to be scared. Gates hasn't crushed any nuts since El-Reno crushed his. He's due.

Casca

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Casca, I was just wondrin last night where yo crusty ass was.

Anonymous said...

I'm living in my own private hell at the moment. Yes, it involves a woman. I haven't had hard liquor in a couple of months. Things should be back to normal before football season starts.

Casca

Topeka Troll said...

I'm no Google fan. They are too antiAmerican for me. I use them on rare occasions, but they are indeed rare. Yahoo is getting under my skin. about half of every search result I click on sends me to some crappy advertisment page rather then the one I selected. That pisses me. Bing lacks depth, but is improving.
Groowe? I'll try anything once, many things twice, and if it involves a great looking, single, available woman, I'm all for it.

Anonymous said...

I Googled Bing.
ozaoB

Anonymous said...

www.scroogle.org

Tonto G.

Anonymous said...

I searched for "Her Filthyness".

Column A: Two hits which were misses (No mention of Hillary.)
Column B: Six Hits, only one was about Her Filthyness.
Column C: Eight hits, four on target. One from C&S (#3), One for a YouTube Hillary Ad (#4), One from SondraK (#6) and one from Think Progress (#7).

Results were:
Column A was Google (What a surprise!)
Column B was Bing and
Column C was Yahoo.

Now, if you were to spell filthiness correctly, you mostly get lots of references about some bible verse. Yahoo wins again with two correct hits; one at Terpsboy.com and, oddly, one at US News & World Reports where the article doesn't mention the terms but nevertheless is about Hillary. Bing only had one hit, a different terpsboy post and Google, as usual, couldn't find anything at all.
GrinfilledCelt

TechnoYid said...

I use ixquick.com, which uses all the major search engines except for Gargle, uh, I mean Google.

Results:
Acorn.org
acorn.com (makes slippers)
www.acornhousing.org
wikipedia.org (A.C.O.R.N.)
Inside Obama's Acorn by Stanley Kurtz on National Review Online
wikipedia.org (acorns)
www.rottenacorn.com +++about A.C.O.R.N.++++
sourcewatch.org
The Acorn Microcomputer (1979)
Acorn, the image editor for humans.

At least there is one negative hit on the first page!

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