Search Engines - Q309
In the past, we’ve brought you the Browser Brouhaha (Q408), a Social Networking Skirmish (Q109) and the Twitter App Apocalypse (Q209). This quarter, we’ve chosen to turn our testing community loose on three popular search engines and one newcomer:
For a complete run-down on the results, be sure to download our detailed report.
The release is open from noon (EST) on August 7 to August 14, 2009 at 11:59 pm. During that time, hundreds of other testers from around the world will search for GUI, technical and functional bugs in the aforementioned search engines.
To win, all you have to do is find a bug and submit it to us through our online platform. The bugs must be original - bugs that are already known are not eligible - and because these are publicly available applications, we do not pay per bug like we usually do. Instead, we award prizes in several categories. For more on the rules and prizes, click here.
Once the competition is over, testers will fill out a survey, ranking each app in terms of usability, intuitiveness and other criteria. As with previous competitions, we'll be awarding over $3000 in prize money for:
- Top overall tester (based on quality of bugs and feedback)
- Top novice tester (same criteria)
- Top US tester
- Top five individual bugs
- Top five feedback (about the feature set, functionality and usability)
For everything you need to know about the uTest Bug Battle - including sign-up, prize info, tips for winning and discussion - be sure to visit the uTest forums.