Crastinate

I recently used the blind search test whereby you search for a term and the site spits out results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo without telling you which search engine provided each set of results. It then asks you which one provides the better results. Surprisingly, for most of my searches I chose Bing. So I decided to switch my default browser in Firefox from Google to Bing and see if I like it better. Bing didn’t last long.

The next day I saw a job posting that seemed interesting and I wanted to learn more about the position. Unfortunately the listing was posted by a recruiter and I always avoid going through recruiters (it’s much better to speak to the company directly). So I do what I typically do. I copy two sentences from the posting and put it in quotes to find the exact job posting elsewhere, hopefully with the name of the real company.

Bing – 0 results

Google – 2 results

Google had picked up the job postings on two other job boards, one of which had the company’s real name and not that of the recruiter. It seems to me that Bing is a pretty good search engine but Google indexes more sites more often (this is just a guess based on my experience). I switched back to Google for now. I’ll check back in a couple months and do some more tests.

Man, that was a boring post. Sorry about that.