An interesting new site has just popped up - http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ which enables searchers to blind test Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s new Bling search engine.
Its a beta site so lacking elegance and a bit buggy. You just enter your search term and you will presented with three sets of search results with all search engine branding removed.
You choose which set of results you think are the “most relevant”, and then your choice is revealed. Can you tell the difference between the results of the world’s favourite search engines?
At the moment, the overall voting totals are not being displayed as some people are trying to ‘game’ the system.
In my own experiments, it was almost impossible to recognise the individual search engines from the results. Give it a try, I’d be interested in your feedback.