<i>2. As someone who cares deeply about research methods, I'd argue that there is little to no value in superficial, subjective and contextless comparisons like this.</i>
I care deeply about research methods too, but I don't understand why this is bad. If the goal is to know which search engine is best -- a subjective question in the first place -- it's gathering judgments from people on exactly that topic.
Of course, you can't take the statistics collected overly seriously, since it's hard to know how seriously different people are taking it and such. But it's probably more true than not.
I care deeply about research methods too, but I don't understand why this is bad. If the goal is to know which search engine is best -- a subjective question in the first place -- it's gathering judgments from people on exactly that topic.
Of course, you can't take the statistics collected overly seriously, since it's hard to know how seriously different people are taking it and such. But it's probably more true than not.