4.2.) Comparison of Copernic and Google search results

Search terms:

Text based chat


Search conditions:

Advanced search was used and exact term search option chosen.

Search results Copernic: 57

The first five hits:

http://www.shorewalker.com/section4/chat_disappoints.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_room

http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/laizhao/default.html

http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/pdf/laizhao.pdf

http://worldbridges.net/chat

Search engines used:

All

Search results Google: 56700

The first five hits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_room

http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/laizhao/default.html

http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num3/pdf/laizhao.pdf

http://www.shorewalker.com/section4/chat_disappoints.html

http://www.shorewalker.com/section4/chat_disappoints.html

The first 5 entries shown for both search engines Copernic and Google did agree in respect of their hits. The only difference to be found was within the hierarchy in which the results were shown. So Google show the Wikipedia page while Copernicus shows it in the second rank. As such it can be assumed that the search algorithm of both search engines is relatively similar.
Using the number of hits the Google search resulted in it by far outperformed the Copernic results. So to take the quality of search results into consideration I took a look at the Google hits with lower hierarchy. It becomes here a bit dubious as Google starts to enlist all the chat rooms with a text based chat facility- which is not what I was looking for.