I attended Illiana Christian High School, in Lansing Illinois. Using Google, Yahoo!, and Bing, I was able to compare how different search engines found results for my alma mater.
Google
The first thing that I noticed about Google was that there was no sponsored results for my search. To the right of the search results was a google map of the street location where you could get directions.
The first result was for illianachristian.org, Illiana's website. I was not surprised by this. The next result was for a trulia.com website that provides statistical information on Illiana. Followed by those two was a Wikipedia article. Finally, in fourth place was a link to the site, www.ichs.pvt.k12.il.us/. This site actually wasn't functional.
Yahoo!
Yahoo!'s search was pretty similar to Google's. The first result was the school's official website, along with a Yahoo! map alongside the link.
Yahoo!'s search provided some sponsored results--and none of them were for Illiana Christian High School. One was for a nearby public high school, another was for Christian high school online reviews, and the last one was for Trinity Christian College! Well, it was actually a degreeguide.com ad, but Trinity Christian College was the title of the ad. I was surprised when I saw this, but my high school is relatively close to Trinity and many people from Illiana continue with their education at Trinity.
Bing
Bing's search was very similar to Yahoo!'s. The first link was Illiana's official website, along with a Bing map and an option for directions. Followed by the Illiana website was a privateschoolreview.com listing for Illiana. Next was a Wikipedia article.
The sponsored results were again very similar to Yahoo!'s, except this time the Trinity ad was the very first sponsored ad that showed up.
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