The following question was presented:
So, the sister site to this one was successfully launched a week or two ago. The one based in the East Midlands. Which was the first search engine to find the new page?
Results:
Google was the clear winner with 60% of the votes selected from the following:
- Ask (0%)
- Baidu (20%)
- Bing (20%)
- Google (60%)
- Soso (0%)
- Thunderstone (0%)
- Yahoo (0%)
- Yandex (0%)
Graphic of Results:
Analysis:
It was actually Yandex, a Russian search engine that hit the site first. Shortly followed by Google which, not surprisingly, seemed to be the voters favorite. Ask, Bing and Yahoo are nowhere to be seen yet. Baidu is typically all over my sites in their push to be the biggest search engine in the world ... helped by the restrictions China has on search engines external to their country.