Google Beats Baidu In Blind Test

Google fans take note: this victory wasn’t of the runaway variety.  But a win’s a win, and a new study did indeed find that Chinese users might prefer Google over Baidu.

I say “might” because, during testing, the study’s participants didn’t know which search engine was which.  So even after their votes put Google into first place, participants may have gone home and started using Baidu again.

That would be their loss (and Google’s); “Google achieved an overall satisfactory rating from 48.2% of the 2,740 Web surfers who participated in a grueling 12-day blind test, beating Nasdaq-listed Baidu’s 39.8%,” reports