His still looked marginally the cleaner work, although by the end of the fifth it was still very much in the balance as Macklin backed him up on the ropes.
Commenting Mr Macklin said sponsored results must be clearly marked and though they might help with some queries user testing showed that people need to be able to spot the difference.
Tony Macklin, spokesman for Ask Jeeves, said the results reflected its own research which showed that people use different search engines because the way the sites gather information means they can provide different results for the same query.