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Blind testing search from Microsoft, Google and Yahoo
Posted by Sharon Chan
Would a rose by any other name smell sweeter? 
Silicon Valley Insider found this site over the weekend: BlindSearch. It compares search results in a blind test, then reveals which search engine the results came from: Microsoft's Bing, Google or Yahoo. The site says it was built by Microsoft employee Michael Kordahi as an experiment.
Kordahi previously posted the survey results but says on the site that someone was gaming the system and he had to take it down.
Microsoft rebranded its search engine as Bing last week, and many company executives kept repeating that in their market research, customers who were given Microsoft search results disguised as Google results preferred Microsoft search.
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