Brand matters when it comes to search engines

A research study at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) – placed identical search results taken from Google into four different results templates – Google, MSN Live and Yahoo! as well as an in-house search engine.
When these pages were shown to the experimental subjects and asked which pages results were more relevant – the majority thought that Yahoo! and Google performed better than MSN and the internal engine.

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