Which is the best search engine? Top search engines review
There are some days I spend 8-10 hours at work using different search engines for my company’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization) projects. So I do consider myself an accurate judge of search engine quality.
Here are my search engine rankings.
1) Google Pros: Still the undisputed king of the search engines and rightfully so. Not only are the ranks relevant using an advanced algorithm, but the results are refreshed and tap into new blog posts, wikis, news, forums, videos, images, and other sources. The interface and display is simple. Gives individual webpages Page Rank scores, so a relevant and popular page from a blog may actually be indexed and ranked higher than the home page of an entire site.
Cons: Will “Pagerank 0″ websites out of its search engine for violating their advertising polices, even if the page (and referral page) gets a ton of real hits. It’s like saying A-Rod’s homeruns don’t count because he used steroids. The entire search engine and related applications are used to enhance Google Adsense revenue. It’s a porn haven.
But the truth is all of the other search engines can’t even compare to Google’s organic and up-to-date web results. The drop off to #2 is huge. Most of the other search engines use old school Lycos and AltaVista algorithms: older pages are more valuable to them, as are # of sites linked to it. That means outdated college research articles that haven’t been updated since 1998 are on Page 1. Most search engines drop the ball on blogs, newspapers, and forums as well.
I will use a very simple demonstration (a fun example) to express my point: here are the search engine results for my niece Jola Besana. Jola just started using the Internet 1-2 years ago, and she’s 11 years old, doesn’t live in the USA, and doesn’t have a history yet, so it should be quite a challenge for a search engine, as she only uses social networking and I blogged about her. Here are my search engine test results (keep in mind, skew.dailyskew.com has been submitted to them previously).
Rules: I typed Jola Besana (no quotes) in Windows Internet Explorer, did not sign in, and displayed 10 items per page (this is the most widely used search engine browser and setting):
1 ) Google Page 1: Contains my DailySkew tribute to Jola Besana, her Friendster page, and an online game she signed up for. Another Jola comes up, and some of Dailyskew’s archived pages (like our PSA for Jolan Besana). All and all, this page (and Page 3) has most of the pages about her.
2) MSN Bing Page 1 (formely MSN Live Search): It picked up my tribute page as item #1 and has a bunch of archives pages by month from various DailySkew pages, but doesn’t list direct link to the permanent tribute link address, just DailySkew’s archived labels and dates. The rest of the results from the other pages have nothing to do with her. Her Friendster page and online game are not listed.
3) Spock Page 1: Much hyped site claims to be the ultimate people finder. It did get my Jola tribute page, and some archives. Missed Friendster, online game, and even the other Jola Besana on Facebook. Riddled with ads that make you pay money for background checks.
4) Cuil Page 1: Cuil’s slogan: “Search 124,426,951,803 web pages”. Good news: Jola tribute is item #1 and it actually picked up an Enneagram page I had (but as an archive), something no other engine grabbed. Bad news: nothing else, and only 11 pages total (most of them were totally out there). No Friendster or Facebook..come on, guys.
5) Ask.com Page 1 (formely AskJeeves): Lists DailySkew archive labels and dates, not the actual post. The problem with listing archive labels is that they constantly change. For example, it picked up the “crime” label from the Original DailySkew. We used that label when Jola’s dad was captured by Somalian pirates. However, any new “crime” article would take over that link. The other Jola from Facebook appeared like the other search engine, but Ask.com had nothing else relevant to my Jola.
6) Yahoo Page 1: DailySkew is listed 3 times, but Yahoo did not index the relevant pages, they display archive pages and articles that are not related to Jola (the engine is seeing the “previous posts” links). If I didn’t call my post “Jola Besana” nothing would have come up. Yahoo did not return the correct results. The mini-life game Jola signed up for was on Page 3, as the last entry in total. Friendster is nowhere to be seen.
SHUTOUTS:
Exalead Page 1: The #2 search engine recommended by colleges had nothing except 2-3 PDFs that were incomprehensible.
Open Directory Page 1: “DMOZ” is run by high-brow volunteer Internet editors and critics. I guess Jola’s not relevant enough. 0 results.
Wolfram|Alpha Page 1: Hyped by DrudgeReport and the MEDIA- this was supposed to be better than Google in terms of compiling the world’s data. This is what I got after numerous attempts of finding out who Jola is: “Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input. “
ChaCha Page 1: You have to sign up to use the search. Pass.
Yahoo! Glue Page 1: (all you need, all in one place.): Nothing.
No search engine had Jola’s Multiply website, which is linked to her two Friendster pages. Not one site had her images. Search engines still aren’t there yet in terms of using their spiders to crawl links and use better context related links. There’s no AI. The burden must be on the writer or website designer to make each page SEO’ed with keywords, cross-links, create a sitemap xml file and upload, and submit manually to each search engine. That being said, Google indexes the best.
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