Based on information I have gathered over the last 2 weeks or so, I have ranked various search engines based on relevance and accuracy.
Here is a list of all of the search sites and engines I have used in this experiment. I searched for 'xboxjunkies, first. On this list is where we came up on the search, and the date of the last cached page.
General search engines
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Alexa Internet - 5th & 8th - 11/02/07
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Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) - Not in the first page - 00/00/00 (however it did list our first forums, back in 2006, lol)
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Exalead - Didn't return a result for us
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Gigablast - Not in the first page - #2 on the list was a post from Travis on RoosterTeeth, check it out, pretty funny
* [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google]Google[/url] - laugh on this one - #1, 2, and 3 on the first page, as well as hundreds of others on more pages - 11/24/07
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Live Search (formerly MSN Search) - 1st on the list - 11/16/07
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MozDex - well, this one actually didn't work with most anything I did - 00/00/00
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Yahoo! Search - 1st and 3rd - 11/15/07
Metasearch engines
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Brainboost aka Answers.com - Nothin, apperently, if you use less than 2 words it gives you an error,
observe.
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Clusty - Again, Nada.
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Dogpile - 1st on the list, but no Cached page.
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Excite - Interesting results check them for
your self here. Notice the old forum posts, and links from other sites in the list.
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HotBot - Again, only 2 from our old forums, none from the updated ones - 02/14/07
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Info.com - First on the list! - no page caching though
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Ixquick - Again, First on the list, but no page caching
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Krozilo - This one, I couldn't even find the search box to type in my query!
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Mamma - No results, uses Ask.com and Gigablast for the search.
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Metacrawler - 1st, 4th, 7th, 9th, ect - No Caching.
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MetaLib - No records found for xboxjunkies. lol
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Myriad Search - 1st, 4th, 8th, - and again, usues other engines for it so, no caching.
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SideStep - LOL This one wont do much good, cause it is a travel search engine.
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Turbo10 - 5th, on page 2, but no caching, looks old though
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WebCrawler - 2nd on the list - and again, usues other engines for it so, no caching.
