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Keeping score in the search war.

In search, you never hear about the “draw”

Wednesday Jan 14, 2009

…until now.

I thought it would be fair to highlight that if you were to compare Live to Google every time you search, as I do, then you would find that they often tie, rather than one set of results being clearly superior.

Example query below:

Search for [maximum roth ira contribution]

Search for maximum roth ira contribution

I would wager that this kind of tie is fairly common for many queries. Unfortunately for Microsoft, a tie in relevance does not convert Google users, nor increase loyalty ofcurrent users.

This one’s a draw.

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