Truth about Google Search Results
When I search ’search engine’ in google, I would be happy to see results in the following order…
#1 Google.com
#2 Yahoo.com
#3 Live.com
#4 Ask.com
and so on…. because I’m very sure that these are the top search engines as on date..
But interestingly, google ranks searchenginewatch.com as its #1 result instead of ranking itself as #1. Though searchenginewatch.com offers a great deal of information about search engines, it is not the result that a normal user expect while searching for a ’search engine’.
Google also seems to be stupid enough to rank its own competitor search.live.com within Top10 rankings, without even ranking itself in the first page. If this is the case, then it clearly means that Google needs SEO for itself 
and also indicates that Google’s ranking algorithm might probably be inaccurate.
Macanix Said,
September 27, 2008 @ 8:17 am
Actually, it kind makes sense. The basic Google page has nothing but a search bar and an image. There is no text on there at all to suggest that this is a premium search engine. Title tags are great to put keywords in but google just put its name in there. I bet is they changed their title tag to “Google Search Engine” with their PR of 10 they could easily get on the front page for the search engine keyword. But with no title tag and no inline text on the main page their site just isn’t optimized your right.