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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: March 10, 2003 AllTheWeb/FAST and Google: In Practice AllTheWeb Best!! -- "The objectives of the test were to evaluate in practice how ready each of these two search engines are to host user searches of a target site and how efficiently each search engine would reveal a target page on that site using known search terms that people have used already to get to that particular page through a search engine." (Comments: Thanks Jerry Mathers.)
Reader Comments...
This intially smelled like a test rigged to have a particular outcome. After reading it, it smells worse. Thanks Beave or is it "The Beaver?" Posted by: Lyle - Research Sceptic on March 10, 2003 02:10 PM
Our parents didn't raise us to be no foulmouthing google-loving dunderheads. Google and AllTheWeb both rank number one a link labeled "The Official Home of Jerry Mathers," but a paid-for-placement link on AllTheWeb has an easier-to-recognize title, "Leave it to Beaver, Jerry Mathers Site." I didn't see a Jerry Mathers text ad on Google. When I'm researching a purchase, I might look at a text ad. When I'm looking for everything else, I don't. Paid-for-placement has its place. Rock on! I find Google's actions and level of public communication disconcerting. Keep an eye on 'em. As Beave once said, "Look who's coming Wally. Creeps incorporated." Posted by: Wally on March 10, 2003 03:59 PM
So Google is the VHS of search engines, while AllTheWeb is the Betamax? In other words, it may be technically better, but ultimately less successful. Posted by: Alan Fisher on March 13, 2003 04:15 AM
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