Bing vs. Google Squared vs. Wolfram Alpha

GOOGLE SQUARED	WOLFRAM ALPHA	MICROSOFT BING
Google squared	Wolfram Alpha	Microsoft Bing

This one morning, I thought of having an insight of all the hype in the search world. I compared the search engines mentioned above from three different points of view and have created a table out my research. Let us have a look at Bing, Wolfram Alpha and Google Squared.

As far as the interface goes, all three are different, each with its own signature. While Google has held its classic-centered search-box and button beside, bing added a stupid looking background which is hard to relate and wolfram alpha did it’s best to look as simple as it could.

Benchmarking these fairly related services gets messy. So, I tried these three searches and compared the result on each.

• Search String: “techarraz.com”

1. Google Squared gave an option to enter five tags to check the site for. So I enter five random tags from my website and there were the results in squared tiles, justifying the site name. With each tag, it gave an image, a description text and other information in a spreadsheet style. That is quite compacted information, all in one single page. But, the service is far from perfect. Probably that is why, it gives you options to save your square. [ SCORE :: 30% ]
2. Microsoft Bing gave list results, with a mouse hover area on the right which gives a pop-up preview of the page and related links from the page. This saves your time from navigating into improperly tagged pages which lure search results. Be assured, i have none of them. [ SCORE :: 50% ]
3. WolframAlpha identifies it as a domain and gives server info. [ SCORE :: 0%, I expected info on the site! ]

Verdict : If you want to search for something as low profile and worthy of only general searches, try bing. It performs similar to Google to a huge extent, thanks to the improved search algorithm.

• Search string: “Barrack Obama”

1. Google Squared :: Gives a sheet loaded with political figures automatically retrieved as tags, information on them, their party, religion! All this information related in some manner. This is good for an all round overview, but still, the structuring of the data as spreadsheets, decreases the priority of the results which are farther from the first column and leaves them at the mercy of curiosity. A pictorial view would have made things better. [ SCORE :: 80% ]
2. Microsoft Bing :: Gives general relevant results as usual. [ SCORE :: 60%]
3. Wolfram Alpha :: Gives personal info., and lifespan till date. I seriously expected more results from wolfram on this topic, maybe it should learn to learn fast on recent outbreaks. [ SCORE :: 20% ]

Verdict : If you want to search for something as hot and happening as the President of the States, use Google squared. It takes you on a journey though the topic.

• Search string: “Facebook”

1. Google squared creates a square, asks for tags to square for Facebook!! Anyways, the square comes out pretty good. Fewer tabs this time, only images and descriptions. [ SCORE :: 70% ]
2. Microsoft Bing gives one first page result, totally relevant, but i wanted more than the site URL! [ SCORE :: 50% ]
3. Wolfram Alpha wolfram Alpha gives domain info, server info, and index page info rarely seen easily like no of input fields, forms etcetera etcetera. [ SCORE :: 70% ]

Verdict : If you are searching for something established for quite some time now, use Wolfram Alpha. It does much more than giving you their homepage.

Also, you might be the maths nerd interested in complex computational values. I would suggest you  go ahead and wolfram it!!

For everything else, Google still rocks.