The BIG THREE, who is faster? Msn, Yahoo or Google?

In this blog we will discuss the performance of the big three search engines.What we are going to do for this simple test is use a key word and find out how long it takes the big three to return the results, we will also see how many page is they have returned



















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I used Catasauqua as my search word, being it's my hometown, I thought I would see how many relevant sites it would return and how long it took to return them!

Using Google to search for Catasauqua, it returned over 850,000 sites relativity instantaneous. Google featured a map of the town and also offered some alternative searching phrases.

Using Yahoo to search for Catasauqua, it returned over 1.4 million sites relativity instantaneous. Yahoo featured no map of the tome but did feature some alternative searching phases.

Using MSN to search for Catasauqua, it returned over 350,000 sites relatively instantaneous. MSN featured no map of the town but did feature alternative searching phases.

• Yahoo: Results 1 - 10 of 1,480,000 for catasauqua - (0.25 seconds)
• Google: Results 1 - 10 of 883,000 for catasauqua. (0.22 seconds)
• MSN: Results 1-10 of 355,000 for catasauqua. (Time not given)

MSN proved to return the most concise results. However their site does lack a display showing search execution time.