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I just tried this with a different movie in mind. The results are pretty interesting, but see for yourself:

http://www.google.de/search?q=the%20film%20where%20a%20house...

http://www.bing.com/search?q=the+film+where+a+house+is+flyin...

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+film+where+a+house+is+flying+wi...

If you get the same results as I do, you should find the correct answer as duckducks first answer and bings 4th one. Google's first page of search results has no reference to the correct answer (though in the picture search the first one picture is from the movie).

I use google day in day out. Maybe I should overcome that habit :-)



My first result in Google for that query is: "National Geographic real-life floating house: Pixar's Up! can be ..."

In any case, I think I have my search-fu already optimized for Google: I'd search "animation film flying house" instead, which results in:

Google → 1st result, Wikipedia page for Up!

DDG → 3rd result, reference to Up! in the title, although not a page about the movie specifically.

Bing → Up! nowhere to be see on the first page.


I see several relevant results in Bing including the wikipedia entry for Up as the fourth result.


Well, it definitively doesn't here: http://i.imgur.com/zaiCy.png (I joined two screenshots in Gimp, that's why the scrollbar is strange)


doing an English language search on google.de is kinda unfair. Also note that the hl param on google is set to german. Of course you get crappy results.


I've been curious what accounts for variation between ddg serps and bing serps for the same terms aside from the zero click and ads. Does bing personalization account for the differences, or do partners like ddg have the opportunity to influence weightings in whats returned? Is Gabriel explicitly searching wikipedia independently?


Bing will try to autocorrect incorrectly. If you stick a + before the query, it'll return the right result:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bthe+film+where+a+house+is+fl...

In fact, as far as I can tell, Duck Duck Go's first result is always identical to Bing's (if you turn off Bing's phrase correction). I imagine this is because DDG uses Bing and always makes it their first result.




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