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Yes, Google Is That Good

by Tim Stevens on April 25, 2007 at 02:15 PM

While the Internet has made it easy to stay informed about what's going on in the world, it's also made it possible for hype to spread and grow at an incredible rate, often faster than real news. So, it's good from time to time to take a step back from the hype and look things over, which is just what PC World did with search engines. They compared the top options and asked the simple question: Is Google as good as everyone says it is?

The answer, perhaps unsurprisingly, is that yes, Google is that good. However, what may surprise you is that Google didn't cream the competition (like Yahoo! and Microsoft's Live). In fact, in terms of actual text-based searching (just looking up information about Abe Lincoln, for example) Google was bested by Yahoo!'s AlltheWeb as well as by AltaVista. However, its video, picture, and address searching, along with its ubiquity on mobile devices, still makes Google top dog in the search engine category.

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Tags: AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Yahoo!

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