Engine of Choice:

Spider conducted extensive tests to analyze how two of the major search providers performed under certain controlled conditions-the browser used was Google chrome in incognito mode, and the internet speed of a steady 1500kbps of dedicated bandwidth. To ensure neutrality, we turned off search suggestions and cleared the cache for each query, to avoid results being affected by the image, video, blogs, news, shopping, reference/academic (dictionary, encyclopedia, maps). The table below represents the sum of the results of Spider’s tests. The results of the tests reflect searches made on a particular day and the state of the search provider’s index on that day-which may change as time passes.

	GOOGLE	BING
Basic Search	83	54.5	Out of 100
Vague Search	73.33	41.33	Out of 100
Regional Relevance	4	2	Out of 5
Semantic Search	4.5	3.3	Out of 5

From the aggregate scores for Google and Bing, Google is clearly the better search performer of the two. But that’s a rather macroscopic view of their individual performances. While the generalization holds true, with Google scoring two nearly perfect results according to our tests, there were certain things Bing performed extremely well at, which we will discuss in our next blog. The one thing we held as a rule, was that what mattered to a search user would be results, and not the technologies behind the search.