Reconsidering Search »
I still use Google. I don't know why exactly. Probably because when I type in a phrase in my address bar, it goes to Google. It's easier to use than to change, and the results aren't completely bad. As I mentioned a while ago, however, MSN Search does a reasonable job.
I have to say that I rarely use it, mostly because of the address bar thing I just described. That might change. I'll keep an eye on it and see. For the time being, I thought I'd update the status again.
If you search for Chad Everett on Google, I'm currently the second listing. The cached image of the page is from the 27th of February. Not bad. If you search on MSN, I'm currently the first result. The cached image is also from the 27th of February. Both are dated February 28th: Early morning GMT in Google, meaning late that night. MSN doesn't provide a time.
This time, I also threw Yahoo! into the search results. I show up second in the listing there, yet I the cached page is from way back - February 6th. Interestingly, talking about that article I linked above. Perhaps because the words "Chad Everett" actually appear in that one. They are in the meta data on every page, but I don't often include them in the entry itself.
Does this mean that Yahoo! is actually more accurate, because it's finding the words in the visible text and not in meta data? Or does it mean that Yahoo! is out-of-date? I'm not sure. I then searched on cxliv. This came in at #1 on MSN (same cached value as before), #1 on Google (yet a slightly older cached version) and the results moved way down the list at Yahoo!, while including two different results, neither of which links to a valid page.
So while these are most definitely simple tests, at a glance it seems like MSN Search is actually the winner. I'll have to do some more playing and get back to you.
