Comments on: Study: Yahoo and Google Tied

By: Rod - The Panorama Internacional

Rod - The Panorama Internacional — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:52:16 +0000

Tied… to me google and yahoo are loosing… spending our time with a trashbox on the search results.

By: Rod -the Panorama Internacional

Rod -the Panorama Internacional — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:50:16 +0000

Tied… to me google and yahoo are loosing… spending our time with a trashbox on the search results.

By: leafar

leafar — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:54:42 +0000

I am proud of the frenchy, this results interested me a lot when I stumbled accross them a few weeks ago.
The point of commercial results is interesting and question by the Yahoo change on its websearch since you can tell what's the commercial part you'd like in your results. A cursor that makes you give on key data : Commercial / non commercial ! It's a key for search especially for soft when they're free version outhere !
PS : exalead is a french search engine that works well / has a nice filetype search options and give results that other folks don't come with.

Sorry for any english mistakes ... i'm french too.

By: Todd Henley

Todd Henley — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:30:05 +0000

will we be looking back in 10 years and laughing at how bad the search engines were? (like we already do now)

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:01:25 +0000

I think the fact that the study excludes commercial results inhibits it’s usefulness. Depending on who you believe commercial searches constitute 35-60% of total searches and very often the sponsored links are the most relevent, so I think the study would be more useful if those were included. In addition, I think both Yahoo and Google would argue that their user interfaces allow searchers to find what they are looking for quicker, which is the ultimate goal.

By: Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:33:36 +0000

Wow, this is great: I suggest a new analysis before going to bed, and when I wake up the next morning, it’s already done. Time zones working in our favor Thank you Jean. Very interesting new numbers.

By: Brian Mingus

Brian Mingus — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:16:45 +0000

I believe the lack of satisfaction stemies from over-diversification without integration over services. My roommates don't know about Google Scholar, Google Book Search, or the myriad of other Google services. I show them how to elicit certain information that they didn't know they could even search for and they are mystified.

The tools are still too complex for the average joe.

By: Michael Edmonds

Michael Edmonds — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:47:28 +0000

The recalculated figures appear to align with the often-quoted market research findings that ca. 80% of users report they’re “satisfied” with what they receive as search results. Of course, some of those same investigations discovered that 40% of users couldn’t tell the ads from the search results, too.

By: Jean Veronis

Jean Veronis — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:12:09 +0000

I've done additionnal computations following Jakob's suggestions. Results and charts here:

http://aixtal.blogspot.com/2006/03/search-yahoo-google.html

Thanks!

By: Chetan

Chetan — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:41:24 +0000

Jean:

We have never head about Exalead which is at position 4. Very interesting study