__/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Thursday 21 December 2006 11:06 \__
> On 2006-12-21, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
> something concerning:
>> Google's Real Search Share 70 Percent?
>>
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>>| Using Hitwise numbers, Skrenta's own server logs, and Google
>>| Analytics, Skrenta compared traffic to apple.com, craigslist, ebay,
>>| flickr, nytimes, topix, tripadvisor, usatoday, wikipedia, and
>>| youtube. The average of those top sites revealed Google sending
>>| 70 percent of the search traffic they receive.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20061220GooglesRealSearchShare70Percent.html
>
> This doesn't prove google has 70%. Maybe it does. Maybe it's 20%. Maybe
> it's 99%. But this doesn't prove anything more than that traffic to
> those sites is due to a referral by google 70% of the time.
>
> I'd say 80% or more of the sites I go to have no referral, by google or
> Yahoo (which I've used almost exlusively for the last several months).
> But some of the sites I go to are referred by Yahoo 100% of the time. A
> few are ones I find on google, which also amounts to 100% referral for
> those.
Speaking from experience (personal and words from friends and colleagues),
Google can easily account for 90%+ of the referrals, especially for
technical content. In many cases it's convenience/carelessness versus
logic/rationale, but let's not go down this 'political' road...
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