Which search engine is "best?"

As Google, Yahoo, and now Bing duke it out to be everyone's search engine of choice, you can now do a blind comparison of the three for yourself.

Visit http://blindsearch.fejus.com/, enter your search term, and you'll get back a column for each search engine on what was found. The order of the columns changes with each search, but by voting for the one that gave what you consider to be the "best" results, you can find out which is which.

All claim to put the better matches to the top of the results list, but of course that's in the opinion of the software folks and how they decided to evaluate the results against your search terms. Your opinion matters, too. If you find one of them 'thinks' like you do, that search engine might become your first choice when you find a new ancestor!

Not only may you find some references to your family or your current brick wall you didn't know about before, but by experimenting with the search terms you use, you will discover how to choose better search words for each of the three.

Try it! It's kind of fun.