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  • ouch, i had to use google over live

    posted @ Monday, September 25, 2006 6:31 PM | 2 Comments | 

    well, i've been telling my friends and family (secretly replacing their search defaults :-)) that live.com is the bomb and it has been producing more relevant searches for me for the past few months since i told myself i'd start using it.  that's a claim i stand by -- so flame away.

    until today.  i was responding to a blog post where someone referred to "Fuslogvwr" and i had no idea what that was.  so i searched on live...no results.  put quotes around it, no results.  and not "no results" in the sense of no relevant results, there were literally none returned.

    argh, i used google.  53 results, an a suggestion for 'fuslogvw' (which was the actual exe name).  what a difference.  i went back to live and entered fuslogvw and sure enough, relevant results.

    and yes, i did report the feedback ;-)

    Monday, September 25, 2006 6:31 PM

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  • Ishai Sagi said:
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    # re: ouch, i had to use google over live


    I have a simple test for search engines - I search for my name. That way I can see how relevant the results are.
    ofcourse, I have a pretty unique name, so thats possible for me....
    anyway - Live shows irellevant results, and fewer results than google. Thats a big sign that Live is lacking in its sites index and history.

    9/25/2006 6:59 PM
  • timheuer said:
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    # re: ouch, i had to use google over live


    ishai: good test. i did yours and the #1 link for both was the same...

    also, is more results necessary = more relevant? relevance is much different than quantity found in index. for example, look at your search...is a result where someone has you listed in sidebars as a blogroll person relevant? or is content within a body of text containing your name relevant? the answer is both, of course, but i'd be curious if you went through each of the 38K results of google and see if they all are actually relevant. in my book, less is more.

    9/25/2006 7:23 PM

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