jay5r - 11:19 am on Aug 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

Try the following: Let's say you hear the term "meningiomata" and you want to know what it is (it's a type of tumor but you don't know that it's the plural of "meningioma" or that it can also be written as "meningiomas" - both of which the search engines do fine with).

You search for it on the three search engines. Google gives the best results, Yahoo! is adequate, but MSN's results are almost useless (and even include a spammy page as one of the top results).

Now say you want an image of meningiomata. Google gives a bunch of them, Yahoo! one which isn't very relevant, and MSN none.

Bottom line, Google is "deeper" than the other search engines and there are times when that depth is a huge asset.

Personally, I use Google all the time and almost never encounter spammy results.