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2008: A Search Oddity

December 17th, 2007 by bentley007

Can anyone else spot the strangeness? Could it be?

Apparently, Microsoft is the most relevant result across all three search engines for the search term “search”. Who knew?

It’s strange to note, that while Google and Yahoo each suggest that MSN is the most appropriate destination to “search”, MSN returns it’s own property. Funny Stuff :)

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One Response to “2008: A Search Oddity”

  1. on 18 Dec 2007 at 10:37 am1 httpwebwitch

    Yahoo isn’t showing MSN in the organic results. that’s a sponsored listing. Anyone with $ can put their link there. Yahoo’s #1 search is Yahoo, MSN’s #1 search is MSN.

    It is amusing that Google is the only one that doesn’t list itself at its own #1. I can imagine the reasoning of a Google engineer: “well, you don’t need to find it, because, duh, you’re already there”

    Notably Google search doesn’t appear in the top 10 on MSN, even though it’s far more relevant to the query than the others. Mmmm… does that feel like a handjob?

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