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One Search Engine is Not Enough
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/18393dcb-f0e0-474b-9a3f-b65e13bf6d02/39D8BCB4-DCB6-4D27-B097-5705F6F2EB8D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/06/search-more-tha.html" href="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/06/search-more-tha.html" style="font-size: 11px;">librarianinblack.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/06/search-more-tha.html"><H3>Search more than one search engine or you're missing a lot</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/06/search-more-tha.html"><P><A href="http://www.infospaceinc.com/onlineprod/wsb_dogpile.aspx">A recent report</A> from <A href="http://www.dogpile.com/">Dogpile</A> (a great metasearch engine) found that the overlap in search engine results is decreasing...and it wasn't that high to begin with. <A href="http://searchengineland.com/070601-094554.php">Search Engine Land</A> has a great write-up of the report. Here are some highlights:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/06/search-more-tha.html"><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">In 2007, "only 0.6 percent first page search results were the same" across the four top search engines. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Maybe you're thinking--that's not fair! you can't expect a lot of overlap between four different engines! How about two? Well, it's better, but still only 8.9% overlap in the first page's results between two engines. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Overall, this works out to 88.3% of total results being unique to one engine.</LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/06/search-more-tha.html">It means we should be using metasearch engines. Or we should be using more than one engine at a time. We should try to educate our users about this. We should try to make it clear that if you're looking for research, for comprehensive answers, one engine ain't gonna do it for ya.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/39D8BCB4-DCB6-4D27-B097-5705F6F2EB8D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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