Articles tagged with 'Altavista'

Got the crazy idea of searching the word ’search’ on 6 popular search engine for kicks. What I found out was quite interesting. Through the pointless research I found out that Live Search actually determines your country of origin by the browser language instead of your IP (like Google). Worse, the results are tuned to your supposedly country of origin whether or not you choose it. To switch to the default version, change the language setting to ‘English US’.

Anyway, here are the search engines in alphabetical order along with their top 10 results. Comments and points are given based on the results returned for the word ’search’ so it might not accurately reflect the actual state of the engines.

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