Search Engine Comparison Study Continued

When I got into the office today I saw there was an email from Danny Sullivan. He emailed me about the study and my post to him about the misunderstanding surrounding my comparison of search results between the 3 major engines and Become.

Danny said that if he thought he neede more information from me then he would've emailed me directly to get it. And he felt I had put enough information in my post and it didn't require followup or clarification from me. But that he mistakenly thought I was comparing Shopping.com, Froogle.com and Become.com. Danny went on to apologize if his review was taken as a dig at me. He said he updated the original blog post on the SEW blog and there is a decent forum thread going about qualitative search results.

Danny's a good guy and I knew he wasn't trying to make me look bad and I didn't take it that way. I sent him an email letting him know that so all is right with the search world, for now. Danny addes some excellent commentary to the original post and I recommend it as a good read.