Jux2 Meta Search Engine – Compare Search Engine Results

What's behind the jux2 meta search engine

As search aficionados, we have watched recent changes in the search industry with great interest. Yahoo! launched its own search algorithm in February 2004. MSN previewed its proprietary search algorithm in July 2004, and is expected to roll it out soon. That will give Internet searchers a choice of four different major search algorithms (Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo). It also made us wonder: how different are the search engines, and is one any better than the others?

We created the jux2 meta search engine as a comparative research tool to answer these questions. Using jux2, we learned that search engines are more different than people think, typically sharing fewer than 3.5 of their top 10 results (search engines data). We also found that a comparative tool like jux2 gives users far more control over their searches and, in many cases, better search results than from any single search engine.

Our hope is that the community of advanced search users finds jux2 an interesting and useful tool. Try it out, and let us know what you think.

Help us discover which search engines are best

We've already learned the search engines are more different than people think. But we'd like to learn more, and you can contribute to our research simply by using jux2 as your usual search engine.

With enough traffic, jux2 can track changes in search engine quality over time with greater accuracy than alternative methods like surveys or focus groups. That's because jux2 collects data on which search results users prefer, based on what people do, not what they say. Each click on a jux2 search result is a "vote" for that result, and therefore for the search engine that provided it. With enough clicks, we can get an accurate picture of how the different search engines stack up.

We will regularly publish what we learn about the search engines on our statistics page.

Why else would you use jux2?

You see much more of the web. The leading search engines are much more different than people think, and typically have fewer than 3.5 of their top 10 results in common. By using only one search engine, you are likely missing very relevant results. Learn more about differences between the major search engines.

You get a "second opinion" on the results from your favorite site. The results that make the top 10 on both, say, Google and Yahoo, are probably great results that should be closer to the top of the results list... which is exactly where jux2 puts them.

You save time and get better results by searching both your favorite search engine and your backup search engine at once. Instead of just seeing 10 highly ranked results from one search engine, you see 16-17 highly ranked results from the two combined on a single page.

You get to choose which search engines to use. Other services choose for you, and they give you no control over how those results are displayed. jux2 allows you pick the search engines you want, and over time we will give you more and more choices about how you would like results displayed.