Posts Tagged ‘ Search Engines ’
Below is the latest U.S. search volume breakdown for the top search engines. Google continues to grow its search volume to north of 63 percent for all executed searches in the U.S, but down very slightly in comparison to the lucrative month of December. During that same timeframe MSN Search is showing a gain of [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week Google issued a statement that Google Video and YouTube would remain independent and that YouTube videos would benefit through inclusion in the Google Video Search Index. Leveraging our daily data on market share and clickstream, here’s a quick analysis on the synergies between the two sites. On the Saturday prior to the Google [...][ READ MORE ]
I came across an excellent analysis from Rich Skrenta here regarding Google’s search engine share. Rich approached the question about search engine share from a site owner’s perspective and revealed that based on his analysis using Hitwise stats, that Google has at least a 70% share of search referrals. What better time to update our [...][ READ MORE ]
I’ve had several requests to provide some numbers on finance.google.com in light of their redesign this week. Here are some quick daily stats from this week: On Wednesday 12/13/06, Google Finance ranked 16th in our Business & Finance – Business Information category with .78% market share of visits for the category up from last Wednesday’s [...][ READ MORE ]
I came across Ben Charny’s article that cited Citigroup’s (Mark Mahaney) prediction that Google would overtake Yahoo! to be the top Internet property some time in 2007. I decided to pull the chart below on market share of visits to the top twenty properties for both Google and Yahoo! to see what insight our data [...][ READ MORE ]
In my daily blog reading this morning, I noticed Steve Rubel’s post regarding the Washington Post’s initiative to build reader comments and profiles into their site, a step towards social news networking. Just today, we issued a press release that commented on the percentage of traffic that search engines drive to our Shopping & Classifieds [...][ READ MORE ]
Danny Sullivan posted a very interesting piece yesterday on what the research services were reporting for Google’s July market share of executed searches. We posted our July numbers the first week of this month indicating a healthy growth in executed searches (see them here). In light of Danny’s post, we’ve compiled our weekly U.S. executed [...][ READ MORE ]
Here’s a preview of a slide from my Search Engine Landscape Presentation for Search Engine Strategies – San Jose (11:00am on Monday). Each time I present on this panel , I look forward to showing everyone some fresh perspective on the search/portal landscape. While I’ve posted several times on the issue of whether Google is [...][ READ MORE ]
In addition to market share of visits and page impressions, one of the statistics that Hitwise compiles is the volume of searches executed on the top search engines. Given our large sample, “top” is defined as 57 search engines used by U.S. internet users during a four week period. Below is a table showing the [...][ READ MORE ]
It’s been two months now since I posted the breakdown of the top Google properties in a custom category. I’ve had numerous requests lately to update the table with more recent data. Below you’ll find the new updated table representing US data for the week ending July 15, 2006, which includes some domains that I [...][ READ MORE ]
