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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Charles Arthur

Compare the top three search engines - anonymously

Over at the Google blog, you can now compare Google, Windows Live and Yahoo's search results, for a given input. Except that you won't know which result comes from which engine (because it only shows you one result, without branding).

It's an interesting idea, though the restriction to one result does make it hard to decide: is that how one would normally do search - clicking on the top link? (Personally, I never use Google's "I Feel Lucky" button; not because I don't feel lucky, but because relying on one link as the answer to a search is, well, about as sensible as relying on Wikipedia for obituary details.)

(Via Tim Anderson, a regular contributor to the section.)

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