Blog indexing: does Windows Live Search really “Suck”?
By: Peter
Category: Antwerp, Blogging, Blogosphere, Computing, Search Engines, microsoft, windows
While Google does a fine job in presenting on-topic general search results, both Google (general search) and “Windows Live Search” persistently come up with the most amazing off-topic results when they make an attempt at blog indexing. Let’s give them a spin, using the (deliberately confusing) search string “Traffic list Antwerp”.
Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=traffic+list+Antwerp: the first result is totally irrelevant, followed by a somewhat acceptable result with traffic info, metro lines, traffic and mobility: the first page is partly relevant for the rather confusing search string. No blogs appear on page one.
Windows Live Search: http://search.live.com/spresults.aspx?q=Traffic%20list%20Antwerp: at number1: this blog 
How did MSFT Live Search came up with this bizarre result? I don’t know their search logic, but they simply cross-linked “traffic (jams)”+” “(beverages price) list”+ ”Antwerp”, all located on different, separated pages and blog posts… At number two: “Audiovisual Performers”. Then the results get more on track: a shipping traffic list appears, along with other traffic related results.
When using both general search engines, it appears their search logic links unrelated words in unrelated posts on blogs, making my blog the “most relevant” for a search-string that has no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue.
Anyone with equally confusing results from “Windows Live Search” when search results from blogs are presented?
