The only real way to actually test out search engines. Compare the results with all of the formatting removed and location radomnized. Here’s a great site to test it out for yourself. You do a search and then vote for the site that you think has the best results. In the early voting it looks [...]
Archive for June, 2009
HP Desktop Centos installs
I picked up a couple HP desktop machines to beef up my garage datacenter recently and came across some very different experiences while installing Centos 5.3. On the HP a6700f, which goes for about $500 with a quad core AMD phenom at 1.8Ghz, 4Gb memory, and a 500Gb disk, the Centos install went beautifully. I [...]
Bing’s not bad
I saw today that Microsoft released their new search engine Bing and have spent some time playing with it. It’s definitely been a pleasant surprise, which is much better than I ever thought Msoft could pull off. Of course one of the best ways to test something is to do a head to head comparison. [...]