Benchmarking search engines

Here’s a simple yet cool engine search reviewer: blindsearch:

Type in a search query above, hit search then vote for the column which you believe best matches your query. The columns are randomized with every query.

The goal of this site is simple, we want to see what happens when you remove the branding from search engines. How differently will you perceive the results?

Here’s how it looks:

Strangely enough, and for the few searches I’ve submitted, Yahoo and Bing won…

update: it’s my eyes or nowadays the difference from google to bing an yahoo is not what we were used to?… no wonder this site is written by a Microsoft employee :)