Did you SEE THE QUESTIONS? Wow is all I can say. I took the ’test’ myself and must say it is back to my history lessons for some of it. Kudos to Matt and Paul.. (and the SEL crew for coming up wih them). Danny should really create an on-site quiz version of this that anyone can take for fun (and get a score). Think you know search? Try out these questions.
Search Engine Land - Last night was the first every SMX Search Bowl. Basically, the Search Engine Land team created fifty questions that were asked to the various teams. The teams consisted of two players from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live Search and the SEM All Star team. Danny displayed the questions on the screen and the first team to buzz in had a chance to answer the questions. If they answered correctly they scored points, if they answered incorrectly, they lost points.
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Search Engine Land - Last night was the first every SMX Search Bowl. Basically, the Search Engine Land team created fifty questions that were asked to the various teams. The teams consisted of two players from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live Search and the SEM All Star team. Danny displayed the questions on the screen and the first team to buzz in had a chance to answer the questions. If they answered correctly they scored points, if they answered incorrectly, they lost points.
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Quick clarfication. I was on the Microsoft team with Nathan Buggia which is probably why we lost. I’d like to point out that we were very satisfied with our second place finish. Next time we’ll have a piece of paper and a laptop with cheat notes like Matt Cutts did. I have proof. :) --Derrick Wheeler
Derrick, don’t be a sore loser. :) Google’s preparation consisted of taking 10 minutes before the contest to think of stuff that might get asked and searching for answers on our laptop. We shut the laptop and put it away before the contest started.And that piece of paper? We were trying to list all the Google Dances that we could think of. As it happened, there was only one question about Google Dances, and the answer ("Esmeralda") wasn’t even one of the dances that we thought of. So much for trying to prepare in advance, even if it was only 10 minutes in advance. :)
OK OK... you officially win. Sounds a little "grey hat" but I concede. :)--Derrick
So what is the answer to the "Wired" article question?, there is no asterisk.
The question about Microsoft’s first search engine is wrong. First of all, when the search engine launched, it was using Altavista, not Inktomi. And second, it was not called Yukon. The first release was called Yukon, but saying that the SEs’ name was "Yukon" would be like saying that the name of another piece of software was "1.0".