Search engines not up to scratch

Martin Belam has done some quick work looking at the response of the search engines to the overnight news from Mumbai.

His conclusion......"they are not performing very well"

Google has says Martin

some news results inserted into the one word search for 'mumbai', but they are not in the top slot. Searching for 'india' had the story down in fifth place, underneath some video content unrelated to the attack.

and as for Yahoo

The extensive terrorist attacks haven't yet managed to dislodge a story about George W. Bush and Thanksgiving turkey from the UK homepage

Meanwhile according to Dad blog

the Indian government asking for live Twitter updates to cease to protect their operations. For all sorts of reasons, this seems to be significant.

You can get tweets at #Mumbai at Mumbai