Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
The article shows BING & GOOG'S search results for "the film where no new babies are born"<p>BING returns gibberish results, GOOG returns an IMDB link to "Children of Men", the perfect answer.<p>But one search out of billions is easy to gimmick, what are the results with a slightly different search string:<p>"the movie where no babies can be born anymore"<p><a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=the+movie+where+no+babies+can+be+born+anymore&go=&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=the+movie+where+no+babies+can+be+born+anymor&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=" rel="nofollow">http://www.bing.com/search?q=the+movie+where+no+babies+can+b...</a><p><a href="https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=off&site=&source=hp&q=the+movie+where+no+babies+can+be+born+anymore&pbx=1&oq=the+movie+where+no+babies+can+be+born+anymore&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=12&gs_upl=513l513l0l1474l1l1l0l0l0l0l98l98l1l1l0&gs_l=hp.12...513l513l0l1474l1l1l0l0l0l0l98l98l1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=88c33d31734d390&biw=1024&bih=683" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=of...</a><p>Bing's search is more accurate in the above example<p>Not "knock it out of the park" accurate but GOOG returns the complete wrong answer<p>How many of these could you find if you had the time in your day?<p>That said, as a guy with a bunch of MSFT stock I can't remember the last time I used BING