SEARCH ENGINE TESTSon Eric tested 4 commonly used search engines by using uncommon phrases from his website, no-jpeg.org. He typed in a phrase such as non-artful images and recorded what rank each search engine gave it, if it listed it at all. So, if the phrase came up as the 4th search result, he wrote a 4 next to the search engine name. These are the results he received:disarming graphic content 1 Google, Lycos, Yahoo, MSN
strategy graphic content 1 MSN 4 Google 6 Lycos 0 Yahoo {0}
language spiritual atrophy 1 MSN 4 Yahoo 6 Lycos 0 Google {0}
literacy non-artful images 1 MSN*, Google, Lycos, Yahoo
non-artful images 1 MSN 2 Lycos, Yahoo 17 Google {0}
perceiving very little 1 MSN 23 Lycos 28 Yahoo 0 Google {11}
language preeminent media 1 Lycos, MSN 3 Yahoo 0 Google {0}
descriptive content submerged 1 Lycos, Yahoo 3 MSN 0 Google {12}
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{} “exact phrase search results”
HIPAA NOTICE.
Warning - Be careful what
information you supply through the internet and how you use it. To companies like Google and Yahoo, all
internet entries are accessible. To
those who know how to use the system, information is both a commodity and power
to control and manipulate. The promise
of profit and control can and is being applied to what we reveal and search for
as well as to the influence of what we see and what we don't. Google selects what articles it shows or excludes on your search, and the order of listing based on its own
criteria. This control of information includes manipulation of
perceptions and gives tremendous power to whoever
controls or knows how to use the system.
Personal Experience - For example, when
tested, Google would not display my web page by subject key-word searches, even
though we registered it and did a number of other things to gain
recognition. I have conducted some searches
that displayed sites at the top that didn't contain the key-words
anywhere. I have also found other sites
by using the ixquick metasearch
engine that Google did not display at all with the same key-word searches. http://ixquick.com/ see http://www.websearchguide.ca/research/metalist.htm