All Search Engines Basically Alike? Hardly.
(rt) Meta search engine → Dogpile has released a new design and some interesting tools along with it, most notably their Missing Pieces service. This is based on a study conducted in collaboration by meta search engine Dogpile and researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University indicating that only a surprising 3% of page one search results returned Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves are the same:
Of the 336,232 results, only 10,712 (or 3%) were returned on the fi rst page of all three Web search engines for any one query. This small degree of overlap shows that the leading engines very rarely agree on what results to return on the fi rst page for any given search term.
Missing Pieces allows you to actually determine what it is exactly that you are missing out on when using on of these search engines.
This is obviously very useful for SEO / SEM ranking and indexing analysis as well, so do check it out:
→ Dogpile: Missing Pieces
Read the researchers’ white paper (PDF, 2 pages) here:
→ Missing Pieces: A Study of First Page Web Search Engine Results Overlap
Hat tip goes to Chris Sherman:
→ Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools
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