An Empirical Performance Measurement of Microsoft's Search Engine

摘要

This paper reports the results of a project attempting to assess the performance of the new Microsoft search engine (MSE) from various perspectives. Specifically the study collects statistics such as the average user response time, average process time for a query reported by MSE itself, the number of pages relevant to a query, and comparisons with its competitors. The project also studies the quality of search results generated by MSE and other search engines. We found MSE performs well in speed and diversity of the query results, while weaker in other statistics, compared to some other leading search engines.