Which Search Engine is Best at Finding Online Services?

Poster Proceedings of WWW10 |

\urlhttp://research.microsoft.com/users/nickcr/pubs/hawking_www01poster.pdf

We report results for an independent, blind evaluation of the performance of 11 commercial search engines on 106 online service queries and on 54 topic relevance queries. We found a strong correlation between performance on the two types of query and significant differences between engines.