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I’ve been noticing that my Biznar alerts for the quoted phrase “federated search” were finding me articles that Google Alerts wasn’t finding. I wanted to quantify this experience — i.e. I wanted to know exactly how many results were exclusive to Biznar. So, I performed a simple experiment. I compared my Biznar alert results to my Google alert results. Specifically, I searched my Gmail account for the title of each of the 21 Biznar alert results that I received for “federated search” at 1:11 this morning to see if Google Alerts had ever (not only today) found me an article with the same title. Note that the most recent Google Alert email for “federated search” came at 11:34 this morning, a bit over 9 1/2 hours later than the Biznar alert.
What was shocking to me was that, of the 21 Biznar alerts I got today, only 4 of them were ever presented by Google Alerts. At the end of this article are the titles (with links), authors, and snippets of the 21 Biznar alerts.
Let me clarify some things about my experiment:
- Federated search vendor Deep Web Technologies sponsors this blog and built Biznar.
- My Biznar alert is configured to search all sources.
- I only searched Gmail to see if there was a title match from Google alerts for the title that Biznar found. Two articles with the same title might not be the same article. But, if anything, this simple comparison method would give Google Alerts the “benefit of the doubt.”
- This experiment only demonstrates the Biznar is finding some results that Google Alerts has not yet delivered to me. I am not implying that Google Alerts won’t find these alerts tomorrow or next week. I will redo my comparisons in a couple of weeks to see if and when Google Alerts finds the documents that Biznar Alerts found today.
- I’m not saying that people should be getting Biznar Alerts instead of Google Alerts. Biznar is a federated search engine that searches 70 sources. Google searches millions of sources and will certainly find many results that Biznar won’t. My recommendation is to look at the list of sources that Biznar searches and to perform Biznar searches for your topics of interest. If Biznar finds relevant documents then register with both alert services to receive alerts.
- In the cases where a Biznar Alert title ended in an ellipsis (…) I removed the ellipsis from the phrase I used to search for a Google alert of the same title. I do not expect Google Alerts to truncate page titles the way Biznar does and did not want to put Google at a disadvantage.
I’m very interested to know if others of you who receive Biznar Alerts have noticed the same thing that I have. I’m excited that, even if Google Alerts finds me a bunch more of the Biznar results tomorrow or next week, Biznar found them first! For those of you who are interested, the results that Google Alerts found are those numbered 1, 2, 5, and 21 in the list below.
As I dig deeper into the data for this experiment I will try to gain an understanding of what is actually going on. Is Biznar merely ranking differently than Google Alerts and thus both alert services are showing their best results and the intersection of the two sets of results is small, is Biznar searching sources that Google isn’t indexing, or is there something completely different going on?
Here are the results of the Biznar Alert I’ve been talking about:
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One Response to "Biznar alerts: better than the leading brand?"
March 18th, 2009 at 7:31 am
I loooove my Biznar alerts. I use them to follow search engine matters. You list some meaty items for your search term, too. I should add such things to my own daily diet. Good stuff!