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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by Tichy on Monday February 09, 2009 @02:49PM (#474053)
"I've seen studies where the researchers show Yahoo results on Google's template, and vice-versa, and people still thought that Google had better results."

Just to clarify, I suppose you mean people thought the Google site with the Yahoo results was better than the Yahoo site with the Google results?

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by inerte on Monday February 09, 2009 @03:28PM (#474112)
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Yahoo search results on a Google webpage were considered more relevant than Google search results on the Yahoo webpage!

Google is a brand. Some people automatically think it's better.

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