Can we get a [2009] in the title?
It would be interesting to see some updated numbers on this, especially from SO. While I don't imagine many programmers are using Bing, it would be interesting to see where DuckDuckGo ranks.
It would be interesting to see some updated numbers on this, especially from SO. While I don't imagine many programmers are using Bing, it would be interesting to see where DuckDuckGo ranks.
Google 69,081,674 visits
Bing 520,543 visits
Baidu 319,294
Search (CBS) 176,208
Yahoo 133,833
MSDN 109.875
Yandex 80.399
Naver 89,733
Ask 30,026
DuckDuckGo 25,492
AOL 6,409
Daum 4,462
Blekko 659This same bias that selects the population will affect the choice of which search engine to use.
We have other sites (cooking.stackexchange, diy.stackexchange) that are much more representative of the population at large. Even on those sites, you see a similar ratio... the second largest search referrer sends 1.6% as much traffic as Google (about twice as much as it sends to StackOverflow, but still virtually insignificant.)
Clearly Google has an obvious and overt lead in all categories, and all search. I'm not sure how you can refute that the set of visitors to one site is not a biased sample compared to all Internet users.
Your results are different than other published search engine use comparisons. If both are factual, then the measurements must come from different populations.
Link please?
The traffic for my site isn't as extreme as the stack exchange, but I'm seeing 9 times more traffic from google than bing. This leads to the same conclusion that Jeff came to. If Bing stopped sending me traffic tomorrow I wouldn't care. If google stopped sending me traffic I'd lose nearly all of my traffic.
Since stackexchange is mostly targeted at the former, I'd expect your numbers to be skewed in interesting ways, which you could partially correct by looking at homepage visits to capture the latter use. (This is a big confounding variable whenever people try to measure comparative statistics between search engines. I've heard that Yahoo and Bing get many more one-word searches than Google, which are likely to be of the spell-corrected dns kind.)
Now that they're not doing that anymore, I'll arrive by google most of the time.
Are they? I can easily imagine it being the other way around. I don't see how general population would know about other search engines or even consider that Google != Internet.
But of course, without hard data the whole topic is groundless.
Actually, that leads me to a more relevant question: looking through the queries that landed visitors at SO, have you done some scraping to determine what proportion were people googling errors verbatim, and what percentage were people asking questions or googling a particular topic, eg "scaling rails"?
As it's full of user-contributed content which is outside the control of the Chinese state it wouldn't surprise me one bit if it was.
In fact, I've just searched for a bunch of queries that I assume would have plenty of bidders (NFL, football, harry potter, ipad) and none of them had any ads box.