Searching for site:andrei.xyz

This was the initial search, as my main idea was to see how many pages were indexed by each search engine, out of the 3857 reported by Hugo when building, or 3827 reported by the sitemap file.

I wanted to find out, how many results are indexed, and how relevant the first Search Engine Result Page (SERP) is. I checked if my homepage is on the first result (or at least on the first page), and if other results get in there.

Google Bing Yandex DuckDuckGo Brave Yahoo Baidu
Number of results 312 363 2000 40[1] 10 360 0[2]
Homepage on first SERP Yes No Yes No No No -
Homepage position in SERP 1 - 8[3] - - - -
Other results on first SERP No No No No No No -

[1] - DuckDuckGo stopped showing the more button after 4 pages. It did the same on the search for “Pedro Pascal”, so I assume it’s intended. If you are on the fifth page, you don’t exist.

[2] - Baidu threw an error, so I guess it either doesn’t support the site:something.tld search type, or I don’t know how to make it

[3] - While the homepage was ranked 8th on the page, all other pages were from my site.

Searching for andrei.xyz

After seeing that my initial search had some issues on some search engines, I removed the site: part, as some search engines may not know how to deal with it. I was interested about the number of results the search will return, how high can my website get on these pages, if the homepage appears there, how many of the results are from my site and how many others are from different sites.

Google Bing Yandex DuckDuckGo Brave Yahoo Baidu
Number of results 16 131K 750K 30[4] 0[5] 1.3M N/A
Highest result position in SERP 1 1 1 1 - 1 0
Homepage in SERP Yes No Yes No No No Yes[6]
My Results in first SERP 2[7] 4 3 13[8] 0 2 1[6]
Other results on first SERP 24[9] 6 7[10] 8 0 10 10

[4] - As shown above, DuckDuckGo usually limits the results after 40, but in this case, it stopped at the third page.

[5] - On search for “andrei.xyz”, Brave returned this:

Not many great matches came back for your search: “andrei.xyz”

  • Try more general keywords
  • Try fewer keywords

[6] - While Baidu didn’t show any results regarding my website, it did show a paragraph at the top of the search results which roughly translates to

[7] - First search result and first image result were relevant

[8] - While only two results were correctly displayed by DDG, all the 11 results in the image search block were from my website. Cool.

[9] - This contains 19 search results and 4 image results that were not relevant

[10] - Out of the 7 non-relevant results shown by Yandex, two were from website stats services (webstatsdomain and clearwebstats)

Short conclusion

As you can see in the notes above some explanations on the particularities of each browser, I could see the following:

  • Google - The monopoly does look good on numbers, but the reality is very different. The amount of crap results on general searches is so big, that this search engine is no longer a search engine for websites, it’s a tool for google to sell you shit (either others’ products or their services).
  • Bing - Decent results, and their ChatGPT integration could become useful, but it’s far from being perfect. Good if others are down.
  • Yandex - Didn’t expect it to be this good. Results are relevant and to the point. Remember how Google was 15 years ago, when they did search and not bullshit? This is Yandex today.
  • DuckDuckGo - While they boast about their concern about privacy when searching, the results were good and to the point. You need a bit of adjustment to know it and it can be a good companion for surfing.
  • Brave - While the search for site:andrei.xyz did show a page with 10 links towards my website, searching for andrei.xyz returned nothing. They need to work a lot on their product if they want to be competitive.
  • Yahoo - Once a contender of Google, now it fell out of popularity. However, it’s still producing fairly decent search results, but that’s because it gives you a ton of results and you have to pick through them.
  • Baidu - seems decent, but not for Europeans. I tried to make some sense of the stuff displayed there, but it’s obvious the Chinese have their own universe relevant to them (and that’s a good thing, being isolated from all the bullshit propaganda)

So use the search engine you like more, but also try to give the others a chance, especially when the one you’re using most of the time fails to deliver a good thing.