Do The Major Search Engines Consider Each Other Valuable Resources?
Well, yes and no. Obviously searching on the engine’s name brings up its main page, along with some internal pages, Wikipedia entries and news results on the first page of results. The results are similar, although not identical, across the engines. The term “Bing” does bring up additional results not related to the search engine, like Bing Crosby on Yahoo! and Bing Overseas Studies from Stanford University, but that shouldn’t be surprising. What’s more interesting is a search for the term “search engine.” A few results are similar, but the differences are quite interesting. • Google: Apparently Google considers Dogpile, a meta search engine, the most valuable search engine out there, rewarding it with the number one spot. Next is Ask.com, and Bing is at number three. Yahoo! barely makes the first page, coming in well below the Wikipedia entry for “Web search engine.” • Bing: Bing does not reciprocate Google’s top-three love. Dogpile gets the number one spot again, but then Bing lists
