These numbers seem off to me. Does anyone here actually run a site where Google is only 65% of your incoming search traffic?
Looking at traffic for a few of my own sites (mostly tech related, admittedly), Google is consistently in the 92-96% range.
Looking at traffic for a few of my own sites (mostly tech related, admittedly), Google is consistently in the 92-96% range.
84% for google, 6% yahoo, 3% bing, 7% small fry, 1.8 M uniques / day on that site.
That's according to analytics ;)
How many of them are powered by Google/Yahoo?
Even Altavista is larger than duckduckgo and they're at 0.14% or so.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/altavista.com+duckduckgo.co...
So if that holds true on the percentage then duckduckgo is at about 0.035%. Which is really not bad at all.
Small fry: search.com 2.7%, ask.com 1%, < 1%: naver.com , aol , baidu , yandex , altavista
naiver, baidu, yandex are local search engines.
It's amazing how much the search market in the US has consolidated. You would think with the declining cost of computing power someone out there would be building their own index.
It's also interesting that cuil doesn't appear in your stats at all.
Free startup idea: Build a niche search engine covering a curated list of sites(like google custom search but with value adds like ddg). Sort of like what blog search engines are doing, but in another area.
Or you'd have to go overbroad.
Cuil is dead, they've tried to re-invent themselves in april as an encyclopedia, I think they must have missed the memo about WikiPedia's continued success.
Their search results suck too...
Duckduckgo.com is larger than cuil!
If the price is right, almost any search can be monetized.
This is how 2nd tier engines like 7search make money, except they have too much low-quality international and bot traffic to give steady conversions.
ddg could easily monetize and attract lots of advertisers if they published their exact search data, keywords and counts. Wordtracker is making a mint, millions and millions of dollars simply publishing dogpile.com search data, which has a tiny (1%) share of the search market. SEMRush is scraping Google for search data and has over 70,000 customers.
Nobody else currently does this. Privacy concerns aside, if there were a search engine that had a good keyword tool designed for advertisers, it would attract ad money in droves.
However, on http://Encosia.com, Google is 97% and Bing/Yahoo are less than 3% combined.
It's all about the site's audience.
Google: 90.7% Yahoo: 4.8% Bing: 3.0%
Same 30 days, one year ago:
Google: 91.96% Yahoo: 5.18% Bing: 1.8%
Yahoo: 5.45%
Bing: 2.60%
Every site attracts a different demographic of visitors, so you'd expect the browser usage and search engine usage patterns to change accordingly. Younger and more technologically adept users tend to use firefox/chrome/safari more than average and tend to use google more than average, that might explain what you see with your site.