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Comment on BSET SearchEngine relevance test results by WithAid.com

WithAid.com — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:20:54 +0000

Great review of the three search engines! One thing that it doesn’t seem that you mention is that Google will generally offer what it thinks you wanted as well as what you actually asked for.

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Comment on BlackboxSET – Blackbox Search Engine Testing by BG Mahesh

BG Mahesh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:26:02 +0000

It would be very useful to be able to configure the country for Google. I would like to compare results from google.co.in, yahoo and bing. Currently it is comparing with google.com, yahoo and bing

Comment on Design to fail by iJohn.org » What is scalability ?

iJohn.org » What is scalability ? — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:24:47 +0000

[...] 　　横向扩展，则不一定要相当数量的昂贵服务器。因为它可以通过普通的机器和存储硬件以达到规模效应来解决问题，像早期的Yahoo!，Google都是这样。横向扩展不仅仅是便宜，它是把应用程序构建在多个服务器组成的一个大server的基础上，这样就会随之有两个常见的问题： “Split brain“(功能，数据分割) 和 “hardware failure“(硬件故障，毕竟机器太多了)。 [...]

Comment on BlackboxSET – Blackbox Search Engine Testing by Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:48:02 +0000

I tried with a mix bag of simple web search and image search. Yahoo was the winner for my varied queries 4/5 times, while google was good on image search.

Comment on BlackboxSET – Blackbox Search Engine Testing by Jayanth

Jayanth — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:30:10 +0000

Admin, is there any way you can measure the the request time and show it on the page.

I couldn’t figure out the faster engine from BlackboxSET. Also, I wouldn’t say that only ONE engine is simpler and to the point, all three are very similar.

I chose the engine with most relevant results on the page as a winner. If they are the same, the one with the most relevant 1st or 2nd or 3rd or 4th or 5th. If I dont see a difference, I dont vote since there is no clear winner.

Hence I would suggest a Button – Similar Results. And show that on the pie chart as well.

Comment on BlackboxSET – Blackbox Search Engine Testing by admin

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:35:54 +0000

Diwakar, Thanks for the feedback. Which part of the world are you from ? Are you talking about search speed, or page rendering speed ? If Yahoo had a simpler launch page is that enough for you to think trying out Yahoo again ? I don’t work for any of these companies, but I’m curious about what you said.

That being said, this site doesn’t actually test the entire search engine features. The only thing its trying to do is figure out if the top 8 results returned are the best one or not.

Comment on BlackboxSET – Blackbox Search Engine Testing by Diwakar

Diwakar — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:24:18 +0000

I couldn’t really distinguish between Google and Y! in terms of search results – but Google is definitely faster then Y! – simpler and to the point. Google user since last 9 years – will happily stay so.

Comment on BlackboxSET – Blackbox Search Engine Testing by rahul

rahul — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:32:30 +0000

I always used Google for search but these results just shaken my head. Out of 10 queries, 7 times Yahoo! was the best for me, only 2 times Google and Bing was just once.
Switching to Yahoo!

Comment on BlackboxSET – Blackbox Search Engine Testing by Stoyan

Stoyan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:24:05 +0000

this is very cool, dully tweeted and digged, hopefully you’ll get enough data points for a solid conclusion.

A friend noticed an XSS vulnerability though, might be good to double check that you escape html entities in the search query.

Good luck with the project!