I started a new blog just over a week ago called BuzzTips. I wanted to see how the search engines had indexed my blog and see how easy that made it for people to get to my site by typing in ‘buzztips’. Here are a few impressions based solely on this one search:
Microsoft Live Search – Does a pretty good job, listing my blog as the third result. Also links back several times to this blog. Not too bad.
Google – Nails it on the first first result and hits my RSS feeds as the 2nd result. Google’s index also seems the most up-to-date.
Ask – Just terrible. Must have a very tiny index since it finds only 2 pages of results, none of which are my blog.
IceRocket – A mixed bag here. The web search does a great job at finding my blog, as good as Google. But their Blog search finds nothing under ‘buzztips’ where I’d expect to find it.
Doing this quick test reminds me why Google still dominates. Their results are presented quickly, neatly, and feel like they were gathered recently. It’s quite clear that Google’s competitors are happy with merely making their search a near carbon copy of Google’s. Google is setting the design for search for nearly everyone. Only Microsoft Live Search felt any different than the others which I see as a good thing.
What search engine do you use?
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