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May 24, 2007

Google displays Live Search as a 1st result for ’search’

Filed under: Business intelligence, Entertainment, Google, Internet, MNC, Microsoft, Silicon Valley, Software, USA, marketing, user-generated content — Jeremy Fain @ 1:59 am

Funny: type in ’search’ in Google and the first result to come out is Microsoft’s Live Search.

At least, it shows Google keeps a fair approach when it comes to result relevancy: Live Search contains the keyword ’search’ so the result is pretty logical indeed.

 

4 Comments »

  1. What I find even more interesting is that Live search for “search” doesn’t list any major search engine on the first page, I only get Finnish companies’ web sites’ own search pages - even though I haven’t specified to search only in Finland. Similar search in Finnish for “haku” (find/search) has the first (major) search engine at #7, which is Google.

    Comment by Kari Silvennoinen — May 25, 2007 @ 1:58 pm

  2. Nope Kari, I get Google in third position on Live Search after search.com & search.yahoo.com.

    Comment by Jeremy Fain — May 26, 2007 @ 12:58 pm

  3. But I don’t. Live Search seems to use some magic to determine that I must be more interested in Finnish sites. The bad thing is that I can’t find any setting to search “search” globally.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/dazyx/livesearch.jpg

    Comment by kari — May 27, 2007 @ 1:49 pm

  4. When you search in live, there should be an option-link which will take you to a place where you can change your location. Mine is set to Rotterdam, by default, and I get the same results as Jeremy.

    Comment by Vincent van Wylick — June 5, 2007 @ 4:30 pm

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