I read a post the other day on Slashdot (News for Geeks, Stuff that Matters), still the web's most popular blog as of March 2005. Slashdot is about technology news, and they had a discussion about whether Google was still clearly superior to Yahoo and MSN as a Search Engine.

Inspired by that thread I conducted my own research. I searched for why are rain clouds grey? (without the quotes) in the big 3 Search Engines and followed the first 3 links. Here are the results (note that these search results may very well change if you perform the same search since these engines constantly tweak their pages):

Google Search:

1. ANSWER
2. ANSWER
3. ANSWER

Yahoo Search:

1. ONLINE NOVEL
2. KID'S SITE
3. FANTASY SITE

MSN Search:

1. DAILY DIARY BLOG
2. RAP SONG
3. SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

Conclusion: I'll stick to Google for now.

grey clouds, courtesy of cohdra from morgueFile

And by the way, from Google's first link result, rain clouds are grey because

they are often large, grey clouds and appear dark because they are so large and full of water that sunlight cannot get through them. The heaviest rain falls from the deepest, darkest clouds which are high enough for the raindrops to develop properly.

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