In our tests, variation among the top four general Web search engines was minor, with Microsoft's Live Search coming in a distant fifth; Ask.com finished two points behind Live Search and ranked in sixth place.
Chart note: The average score is composed of scores from three rounds of testing. In the first round we posed ten queries, awarding one point if a link to the target response--or the response itself--was included in the first page of results. In the second and third rounds, we awarded three points when the target response was available from the first result (or above it, in several cases), two points if the target was in the second or third result, and one point if the response was listed elsewhere on the first page of results.
