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Michael Kordahi
Personal blog · delicategeniusblog.comwebwriting
Michael Kordahi writes delicategeniusblog, a personal blog at delicategeniusblog.com about web and writing. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “BlindSearch : And the Results are In (Blind Search Engine Comparison)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Kordahi's blog for his 2009 blind search comparison of Google, Bing and Yahoo results, which is cited in discussions of whether Bing is better than Google.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- BlindSearch : And the Results are In (Blind Search Engine Comparison)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-08-31
What Hacker News says?
I must honestly say that I forgot where I got this from, which is not a good thing. Thanks for pointing this out. That said, http://mashable.com/2009/06/07/blindsearch/ (apparently based on http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=839 ) suggests that in a blind three-way test in 2009 both Yahoo's and Bing's results got picked as the best regularly (Google gets 41%, which is a substantial but not overwhelming advantage.) Not…
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on “Microsoft has lost $9 billion on Bing”Submitted BlindSearch : And the Results are In (Blind Search Engine Comparison) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA few years back (6 months before the first Bing study in the article) Michael Kordahi developed a site "Blind Search" that anonymised search results from Google, Bing and Yahoo and put them side by side, letting users vote which they preferred. The site ( http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ ) now seems somewhat-defunct, with Yahoo results failing show. Aggregated results posted mid-2009 ( http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p…
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on “Ask HN: Is Bing really better than Google?”