Mr Creosote
Joined: Sep 10, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jul-13 15:35
does anyone know where I can find or tell me what the latest search engine percentage shares are?
For example
GOOGLE 50%
YAHOO 20%
MSN 20% etc etc
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St0n3y
Joined: May 01, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jul-13 19:59
I'd like to know this as well. Can't seem to find a difinitive source.
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Mr Creosote
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Posted: 2004-Jul-14 10:50
I am guessing that Google are losing a quite a large percentage of traffic due to the poor search results. Probably covering lots of discussions in here when I say that since rumours of the Google's IPO results have got steadily worse
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ultra2004
Joined: Jun 15, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Jul-14 16:05
This is the only one i can find, it's from January 2004
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156451
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andromeda
Joined: Jan 28, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Jul-15 05:44
I know Google still has a large percentage. I've been dropped from all my positions in Google since the beginning of the year, and my traffic is only a quarter of what it used to be - and I still have good positions on all the other engines.
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mukul
Joined: Oct 12, 2003
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Posted: 2004-Jul-15 07:45
I have reasons to belive that google is the champion
1) Only one my websites get more traffic Yahoo, apart from that google earns me my bread and butter (jam in some cases  too!), my rankings are worst in google, so I can conclude that google must be getting a huge amout of traffic.
2) When I interview people in my company, I ask them "which search engine do you use?" , so far we have never heard anything else then google.
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ultra2004
Joined: Jun 15, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Jul-15 09:16
I use google because that's where most of the traffic is concentrated, but if i want to search for something that i really need i use either Dogpile or Alltheweb.
They don't have as much Shopping clutter as Google does, thats the price of commercialism i suppose.
Still i can't knock it, it's paying the bills.
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Mr Creosote
Joined: Sep 10, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jul-15 11:39
thanks ultra2004, exactly what I needed!
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St0n3y
Joined: May 01, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jul-16 00:47
Here is what we came up with from researching multiple sources:
Google: 32%
Yahoo: 25$
MSN: 23%
AOL: 13%
Teoma/Ask: 7%
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mukul
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Posted: 2004-Jul-16 05:38
Wow those figures are very close.
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ultra2004
Joined: Jun 15, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Jul-16 08:03
It would be interesting to know what those figures were this time last year.
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Mr Creosote
Joined: Sep 10, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jul-16 11:08
St0n3y where did you get this information from? You mentioned multiple research sources but did not quote them.
The reason I ask is that the figures you mentioned are extraordinary.
Also if anyone knows the UK statistics I would very much appreciate it if you would let me know.
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St0n3y
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Posted: 2004-Jul-16 19:46
One of my researches pulled the numbers. Its somewhat of a combination of multiple sources. I'll have him send me the links to the sources and post them here next week.
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thejenn
Joined: Aug 08, 2001
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Posted: 2004-Jul-21 17:23
Link to PC World
Use of Yahoo as a search engine ties that of the mighty Google in the most recent Consumer Technographics survey, sponsored by Forrester, of more than 60,000 North American households. Each of those search engines shows up with 40 percent of Web surfers who use a portal or search site at least once a week.
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St0n3y
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Posted: 2004-Jul-21 18:42
It would have been nice to see some percentages in that article. Not that I'm doubting them but it gave me the impression that they are just saying what they believe to be true. Why didn't they back up their story with some statistics?
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St0n3y
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Posted: 2004-Jul-21 21:27
These are the three primary sources. We have tried to take the data from all three and come up with a representataive number:
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156431
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156461
http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156451
Ideally I would like to see a figure for daily (rather than monthly) unique visitors broken down into percentages.
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Mr Creosote
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Posted: 2004-Jul-22 09:30
thanks
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thejenn
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Posted: 2004-Jul-22 15:59
Note, I did some further digging into the Forrester Research figures...
They got their 40% figure by asking people within the survey to name any "portal or search engine" they had visited within the last week.
That means that Yahoo would be counted even if someone went there to read the news or check email, not just to search. In my mind, that renders the figures to be somewhat bogus.
You can always check comScore and calculate the figures for yourself. They release monthly data on traffic to Web sites, so you could at least figure the share of unique visitors each search engine gets. Their latest data can be found here.
They also did some research earlier this year in the U.S. and Canada on saturation of the market for Google, Yahoo! and MSN. That data can also be handy and can be found here.
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St0n3y
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Posted: 2004-Jul-22 17:26
thanks Jenn, more good figures.
The problem with all of these figures, including the sources I provided above, they don't ever seem to give you something useable.
For instance, the search marketshare counts unique visitors per month. Well, John Doe doing a single search on Yahoo in June counts as much as Jane Doe doing 100 searches on MSN.
A combination of daily unqie visitors and daily searches per search engine would be an ideal figure to find. This will give the best representation of "market share". Of course this won't take into consideration the number of searches performed by webmasters, owners and SEOs doing nothing more than checking rankings.
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