Best search engine.?

[manoj01]

Hello friend,


Please tell me your advise, Which is Second best search engine ...?

 

[omthavertch]

yahoo using the bing search method for the search result so bing the second second best search engine

 

[ruzeen]

Baidu

 

[N-A]

Depends on what traffic you're seeking.

 

[socialmediabuck]

I think, yahoo search engine is best compare to others.

 

[Soni Singh]

According to me Yahoo is 2nd Best search engine.

 

[manoj01]

hi guys...
What do you think...?? which one is better - yahoo or bing.

 

[SearchEngineZ]

Yahoo is powered by Bing. Bing is the clear #2 and perhaps Google's equal if you are doing serious searching (not news/videos/social)

DuckDuckGo isn't bad.

 

[vishwa]

Bing and Yahoo are same and works collaboratively. So, For me The second after Google is both Bing and Yahoo.

 

[enlytend]

I see a lot of people listing the 2nd most POPULAR search engines, what makes them the "best?" Best in what situation or types of queries? For that matter, is everyone assuming that Google is the "best?" There are some queries where I would argue it is not.
If anyone else comments on this thread, please give a reason WHY you are making your choice - otherwise this discussion is rather pointless.

 

[buyselldoms]

I am just hoping there will be a search engine that comes along that no matter what query you search for it produced only 30 results. These 30 results will be relevant. No nonsense when you search, tempting you with 14,245,735 results for your search term... that means nothing.

Google has to be the best by default - no where near as relevant as it used to be. I love Bing's homepage concept... the picture plus facts on it. (You can even get that picture as your desktop picture) The results leave a lot to be desired though. Google's changing logo has got old and boring. Some of them are clever adaptations, other pretty poor. They are really slow with their April fools each year.

So for me overall its Google then Bing. I prefer Bing's style actually and they were producing good results when it first launched (rebranded). The problem is when you are indexing trillions of pages, it destroys the whole efficiency process. Bing and others suffer from this effect more than Google IMO.

All the search engines are guilty of going for quantity rather than quality. One example is around 50 websites with a page on every possible phone number combination in US, UK etc. They do extremely well in the search engines in regards to pages indexed. Very few pages actually have comments suggesting who called from that number. How its not seen as spammy or duplicate content is far beyond me. Surely even if you were to index a whole site of this nature, do you need the other 49+ or so copies... some competitors/copy cats and others owned by the same people? I think not.

I also think the one-size-fits-all will soon be a thing of the past. Okay, you get normal Search, Images, Videos at the moment... but something as simple as separating whether you are looking to buy a product (so far we have price comparison and basic implementations which are paid for), looking for knowledge etc. Google is king but has a lot left to be desired. Google famous for suggesting alternative queries hasn't currently got the ability to understand the query, until the search engine can add weight to search term queries on a case by case basis search results wont be improving any time soon. The issue is, more and more websites are out there now, this is having a major impact. SEO might be close to impossible in the future.

 

[enlytend]

All the search engines are guilty of going for quantity rather than quality.

And then Google especially, in trying to rectify that, ended up top-heavy with big brands and a lack of diversity in many verticals.

Not that this was a totally bad thing in some areas which were heavily spammed with cheesy money grabs (like financial, medical ...) but still if I'm researching a medical issue, WebMD and CVS aren't always what I want.

Or let's say you're buying jewelry - unless you get very specific, they'll return all the big (schlocky) national mall brands.

but something as simple as separating whether you are looking to buy a product (so far we have price comparison and basic implementations which are paid for), looking for knowledge etc.

With Google's natural language queries / Hummingbird they try to guess intent, but agreed - still leaves a lot to be desired!

Those phone number sites are awful. You'd think they would have been dumped by now.

 

[buyselldoms]

Whats even worse than those phone number websites are the simple "SEO" script sites... normally in the format yourdomain.com.theirsite.com or similar, Google seems to love them and I have absolutely no idea why. They have no use to anyone... usually saying how relevant the title, meta description and page content is. Has whois sometimes. The least rubbish ones even have thumbnails.

 

[buyselldoms]

The problem with Google now is they wont allow a 100% natural SERP while relying on Adwords advertising above and alongside results to monetise (in addition to the Adsense network of publishers).

The obvious patterns on these shocking/surprising positions is MOST of these websites monetise through Adsense. Thus if Google can send guaranteed traffic they stand more chance of getting clicks and therefore money. Google is pushing its luck regarding Anti-Trust.

It can therefore be argued with less traffic pushed to these favoured websites, the less money Google makes... this indirectly makes it in-effect a paid for position. This isn't allowed - adverts have to be represented as such.

Of course a lot of top websites are NOT partners with Google. Is it all SEO or is there something else to it?

They still have a long way to go, much of Google now is predicting what you want rather than processing what you want better. For example, if I search for a query, if I cannot find what I am looking for, despite not being logged in... Google will take this into account with the second search term. Very clever, huh? So when you perhaps used the wrong search term (in regards to the optimum term) and correct yourself, the second time is more difficult, because it wont return the results of what the second search term would have returned, had it been the first thing you searched for.

So if you omitted a word you saw as irrelevant, but Google saw it relevant in your revised term, it will still consider that in the results it brings back. It would be amazing if someone could set up a new search engine to give Google a run for their money. However, as Microsoft knows, people are just programmed to use Google (myself included).

 

[Rado_Ch]

This went a little off-topic with the Google monopoly (although 90% of what was said is spot on). Google will ALWAYS look for a way to better push their paid services like Adsense, while justifying what they do for a better, brighter future where the search engine will practically know what we want halfway from typing it. Often resolving to scare tactics and witch hunts they leave obvious loopholes and examples of what should obviously be penalty candidates. But you said, I'll say it, and everyone else will say it - it all comes down to habit! I still get the shivers as to what large portion of people were using IE just because it was the default browser with Windows. But unlike IE, Google doesn't seem to have a viable rival to really challenge their service and makes them want to improve for the end-user really...

Sooooo, after going off-topic myself, lets get back - second best search engine? I would say Bing. Why?

- image search is better for me, better user experience and preview options
- video search is MUCH better, more structured results and easy preview with a hover (why Google is doing nothing there for so long is beyond me. They now own YouTube for some time and still nothing? Srsly Google?)
- if you are into PPC, Bing is much, much cheaper for executing a PPC campaign. Of course, understandable, as it reaches a far less broader crowd. Still, its good for diversification of marketing efforts
- Dat Homepage Image! Some people like it, some people like the occasional doodles. Me? I love it!

 

[WebDevHere]

Well, I think the places should go like this:

1. google
2. bing / yahoo (it is almost the same, because as i imagine they use the same database)
3. yandex (mostly for russian / cyrilic sites)
4. baidu (for china mostly, also maybe japan and singapore)
5. duckduckgo (general, but not very popular)

By the way, all first four has webmaster tools, so it is useful to list your site there to see if there is no indexing problems, how many traffic you are getting etc.