When you use the Internet to find something, more often than not, you're using a search engine as a portal to this information. Nine times out of ten, you're using one of Google Search or Yahoo! Search. In a few short years, Google has amassed a huge market share, taking from the likes of Yahoo! and Microsoft. However, I've read articles recently^* claiming that Yahoo!, with changes made in their search technology to combat the Google onslaught, now returns better, more relevant, and safer results, but are still failing to gain back market share because of the huge amount of momentum that Google has gained in the industry.

So, with this in mind, I thought it would be interesting to put these two search moguls to the test. I've created a simple search mashup, dubbed Yahoogle!, which I think might help verify these claims. In short, Yahoogle! takes a search query, feeds it to both Yahoo! Search and Google Search, anonymizes the results, and displays them intermixed in one search result list. Relevancy is measured purely by clicks, nothing more. Anyways, give it a test-spin and let me know what you think. If enough people search here, I'm sure we'll start seeing some trends...

Happy Searching!

^*Note: I wrote this post a few months ago but didn't publish it at the time, so the recency of these articles is based on when I wrote this post :)

^**Note: I made Yahoogle! in about 2 days, so it isn't fool-proof. Yes, with a little insight, you can tell which search results came from which search engine, but that's not the point. At a glance, it's not bad for 2 days. Oh, and it doesn't work in IE :p