While working on an upcoming presentation, I came across a Web page that I could not find on Google. The page has been at that URL, on a Canadian academic, site since at least 2003. I was rather surprised to not find it there, so I decided to try a quick overlap showdown. The comparison showed that it was indexed by Yahoo!, Gigablast, and Exalead, but it was not found by Google, Live, or Ask.
So here’s another screencast showing the lack of overlap between search engines. This is a short screencast (01:30).
If the embedded version above does not work, try it direct at YouTube.
Try the searches yourself below to see if anything changes. Strangely enough, when I first ran the search, Ask found the page. Then when I recorded the screencast, Ask could not find it anymore. I just checked again, and it is back at Ask. Go figure.
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