On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Considering how new Bing is, that strikes me as a surprisingly good
result.
Search for blindsearch.fejus.com and you'll get an error message in
the Bing column:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.taniika/
mkordahi/blindsearch.fejus.com/search_funtions.php on line 130
Why am I not surprised?
Another thing I find not surprising...
"Then Matt Cutts, a Google employee, pointed out on FriendFeed that
Kordahi works for Microsoft. "I worry a little bit about self-
selection bias," he wrote."
The above from a long and very interesting Reuters story about
BlindSearch. Unfortunately it appears to have been taken down at
Reuters. You may still find it cached here...
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:ZIBOKKY4szQJ:www.reuters.com/
article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUS105385871620090609+blindsearch+Microsoft
+MVP
I would have expected the 3 choices to be close to 33% each so I'm
surprised that Google scored so well. Why 33% each? Because it is
very unlikely that searchers could do any genuine analysis by
skimming the 3 columns. A good analysis would take a lot of work. Few
people would do that. So I would expect clicks would be uniformly
distributed among the 3 choices.
I blindsearched on "Ricky Jay" and found some very interesting
interviews and opeds in one column. That turned out to be the column
for Google. Proving nothing.
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