Searching the Search Engines for..."search engine"

Who's the top search engine? Well, why not ask the search engines themselves?Gord Hotchkiss's MediaPost article takes a look at which search engines show up when you search on the keywords "search engine" at the major search engines. Even though Google ranks itself 5th, it came out on top according to Gord's complicated GordRank algorithm. Gord is quick to point out that Microsoft's MSN search is virtually non-existent in the search results, including its own. It does appear for related terms like "search" and "web search", although those terms are searched on a lot less than "search engine." In fact, I thought it was interesting that the new Beta search is showing up #3 in a search for "web search"

I guess we didn't need GordRank to confirm that Google is the King of Search...One other interesting tidbit--I noticed that according to the Overture Keyword Tool, "google search" and "google search engine" were searched on over 1 million times, combined. That's more than "search", "web search", "job search", "people search", "yahoo search" and over 10 times as much as "msn search". Yeah, I guess a few people are using that little search engine called Google.