how many people would go to Google and search for a term "new search engine"?
I'd figure a person would use the term search or search engine, and for those duckduckgo is not even in the top 10 pages
I'd figure a person would use the term search or search engine, and for those duckduckgo is not even in the top 10 pages
(From google adwords tools).
For comparison, "people search" gets 68,000,000 January, and average of 30,400,000
You should also check out google's new Search Insight at http://google.com/insights/search
Also SEOBook has a decent tool: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
But yes, AdWords tools is among the best to find search volume. No one else has the data to offer the same information.
You have to start somewhere...
I thought "new search engine" was a) in immediate reach; b) efforts for it could help with "search engine"; and c) people actually searching for "new search engine" are probably good candidates for using Duck Duck Go.
Now I suppose it's time to move on to higher volume stuff...