Recently Google has been getting a lot of flack for the quality of the SERPs in the UK.

This included a post by Dave Naylor regarding the results that were shown for “Tennis Court Hire”.

At the time of Dave’s post the top 6 posts were showing Australian sites, however at the moment these sites have dropped but they are still on the first page.

Google-UK-SERPs

This made me wonder how much better Bing and Yahoo was, and in Bing’s case it is quite disappointing.

Bing-SERPs

So 5 out of the top 10 results are currently Australian sites, with the top 2 being Australian, making the Bing results just as bad if not worse than Google’s

Finishing on a more promising note I tried out Yahoo with the following results:

Yahoo-SERPs

At least Yahoo managed to show some more appropriate results with all of them being UK based.

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