Google Is Not A Relevant Search Engine

Posted by webchicklet in Search Marketing on April 3rd, 2010 | one response

Clearly, this Webchicklet has way too much time on my hands on this Saturday morning. I got to wandering the web and came across an old 2008 post about how Google was not a relevant search engine according to it’s own search engine! Back in 2008, Garry Conn wrote about typing the search term “search engine” into google.com. The results back then were astounding, as Google wasn’t even listed in the first few pages of search results! Back then, Google search considered Altavista.com, dogpile.com and ask.com the three most relevant search engines. So I got to thinking…..Google must have rectified this little oversight by now, right?

So, naturally, I opened up the google.com main search page and typed in the term “search engine” to see if they now think they are a relevant search engine. The results made me laugh yet again.

As you can see, strangely, not much has changed. The top three most relevant search engines now are Dogpile, AltaVista, and Bing is now in third place. Google.com is nowhere to be found on the first page. In fact, according to the Google Search Engine, the Google Search Engine is the 20th most relevant search engine! That’s right, google.com is at the bottom of page 2! The results are rather strange, given that DogPile.com is probably one of the worst search engines out there. And Yahoo, supposedly the number two search engine, on number of visitors is listed in 9th place.

If you enter the same search on Yahoo.com, you’ll see Yahoo Search listed number one, google number two, and again, DogPile is in the top three. When you search on Bing.com, you get Dogpile number one again, then wikipedia, and then altavista(is Altavista really still around??) . And interestingly, the ever popular DuckDuckGo.com is the 4th most relevant search engine according to Bing.

I’ve got nothing more to add to this. This is just one of those head scratcher’s that have no right or wrong answers. But clearly, we should all start buying up DogPile stock, as it will be the next Google!

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