Web Search–Cool Tools
Source: SearchDay
Exploring Search Engine Overlap
Chris Sherman introduces us to Thumbshots, a very cool tool. He writes, “Search engine guru Greg Notess has long studied search engine overlap — the number of pages found by more than one search engine. Greg’s findings have consistently shown that there is very little overlap in the web page databases of the major search engines, meaning you’ll likely get very different results depending on the engine….The results for most queries confirm Greg Notess’ research: there is very little overlap in search engine results for most of the tests I ran. And in most cases, even the top ten results vary significantly from engine to engine.” A perfect resource to use in demos when you need to show that results vary amongst major web engines.

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