Playing with Search Engines Part 1 = Bing

Playing with Search engines.

As most of you know I spend virtually all of my working day testing search engines. I thought that today I would take a small look one of the new big kids on the block Bing which is the new search engine from Microsoft.

As I’m a Test Manager I won’t be be comparing basic searches but I’ll be looking for weird results and also looking for possible defects.

One of the great things about Bing is that it’s very similar to Google in that they share the same search structure, so if I type into Bing that I want to look for The Test Manager the URL will look a little something like http://www.bing.com/search?q=The+Test+Manager.com&go=&form=QBRE&filt=all&qs=n . Now if I want the exact same search in google all I need to do is to change the domain name from bing.com to google.com keeping the rest of the URL so the query now reads.  http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Test+Manager.com&go=&form=QBRE&filt=all&qs=n .

So lets start looking for interesting data. Read more…