Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'statistics'

Alexa Announces Rankings Change

A new rankings system is now available within Alexa, we have learned. The new rankings system "now aggregate[s] data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users," according to...

Searches Down Month-To-Month: Google Gains Slightly More US Market Share

comScore released February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings which showed that month-to-month, search volume was down about 6-percent from January 2008 to February 2008. Here are the stats on that by engine: At the same time, Google gained slightly more...

Ask.com Provides Compete Statistical Traffic Estimates

Barry has posted at Search Engine Land that Ask.com is adding Compete stats to its Binocular site preview feature. When you perform a search, you see binoculars on the side of the page which shows a page preview. The second...

Comparing AOL's Search Data to Google's Estimate of Unique Queries

The other week we reported that Google said about A Quarter of Google Searches Are Never Seen Before. Since then, Google clarified that the 25% figure was just a ballpark figure. JohnMu (aka SoftPlus) has started a thread at Cre8asite...

More Search Market Share Stats - Nielsen//NetRatings

I typically like to wait for Danny Sullivan to do his large chart, plotting all the various metrics companies against each other. But Nielsen//NetRatings released (PDF) a report with new share figures. Here they are: In the number one slot,...

Google Loses To Yahoo! In Time Spent Online

The Compete.com Blog posted results for their data analysis of where do people spend most of their time online. While Yahoo! came in second with 8.5%, Google only captured 2.1%. MySpace came in first place with 11.9%. These figures include...

Search Can Be Better; Survey Says

Brett Tabke posted a WebmasterWorld thread linking to a new survey by Convera that polled 1,112 professionals in various industries in November. The article is at The Enquirer by the AP and it reveals the following: Only 21 percent of...

Live.com Is Not Passing Referer Information

So MSN Search Switched to Live.com the other night. Guess what... Live.com is not passing referer data. I.e. you will not know what type of traffic you are getting from live.com. You won't know you got 10 or 100 or...


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