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      CommentAuthorGeog
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2006 edited
     

    I just registered recently, so forgive me if I'm in the wrong category.

    I recall hearing a fact which states that only about 40 (something) percent of the Internet using population use Google. I find this very hard to believe, as no one I know who uses the Internet has not used Google regularly, but I guess it could vary greatly by country, region, etc. Does someone know anything about this?

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      CommentAuthorlegatissimo
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006 edited
     

    That's a great question Geog. In fact, I'm going to make it the research topic of the week. I'll make an update for next Friday with the best information people can uncover about search engines. The researcher with the best fact, with me acting as the sole, arbitrary judge, will win a obscenely large Gullible.info t-shirt. As seen here, [[broken link]]

    Happy researching.

    edit: So search.php doesn't exist any more. Well, here's a picture of the shirt:

    • CommentAuthorwerdan
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006 edited
     

    I took a quick search on Alexa and here's what I found:

    Five of the sites on their Global Top Ten are search sites. They are:
    1)English language Yahoo!
    2)English Google
    3)English MSN
    4)Chinese Baidu
    6)Japanese Yahoo!

    This chart compares traffic to the top 3 site for the past two years:

    http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379&h=216&r=2y&z=&y=r&u=yahoo.com/&u=google.com/&u=search.msn.com

    Zooming in to the past month:
    http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379&h=216&r=1m&z=&y=r&u=yahoo.com/&u=google.com/&u=search.msn.com

    As you can see, they appear to have been about the same since the start of this year.

    As for a percentage, Yahoo! and Google both get about 280,000 hits per million. That comes to 28%, or for 1:3.6

    • CommentAuthorBredej
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006
     

    I was just wondering, didn’t Google buy out Yahoo recently… And many websites that contain search engines, or even claim to be there own search engine utilize other search engines… i.e. (Powered by Google, or Powered by MSN ect). What ramifications would this have on the statistics of search engine use.

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      CommentAuthorGeog
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006 edited
     

    While browsing Google's History on Wikipedia, I found a related article of Google's Acquistions. Yahoo is not on this list, and I am fairly sure that Yahoo was in a partnership with Google. Yahoo owned 2.7 million shares of Google.

    This is the Google Acquistions page.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acquisitions_by_Google

    This is the History of Google.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

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      CommentAuthorGeog
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006 edited
     

    And to fully answer your question, Bredej, a "Powered by" search on any website should not have any ramifications. The only difference is the place of the search. The results are still returned by the search engine itself. What my original question was, is about the amount of people who use a Google search, not about the traffic of Google.com itself. Ok? :)

    • CommentAuthorBoiok
    • CommentTimeJun 1st 2006 edited
     

    Well, Geog, I find that statistic hard to believe, as well.
    But, apparently, it's (almost) correct.
    I searched around the internet and found this page: http://www.1cog.com/search-engine-statistics.html

    It has a whole bunch of search engine statistics, along with how many searches each search engine gets per day (in millions).

    Google gets about 112 million searches per day. The total of all the search engines added together equals 319 million. I ran a calculation on these figures, and, quite surprisingly, Google only gets 35% of the searches.

    Please correct this info if it's wrong, but I double- and triple-checked, and I got 35% each time.

    • CommentAuthorAndrew
    • CommentTimeJun 1st 2006
     

    Even more surprising, to me, is that fully 12 percent of web searches are on search engines that use only text based ranking systems. That is, unlike most modern search engines, they don't use any information about incoming links to rank sites.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeJun 2nd 2006 edited
     

    Boiok, 35 % of the searches are on google doesn't mean that 35 % of the total internet users use google. Your information doesn't contradict Geog's information.

    I could've sworn, however, that I read that ~ 2 / 3 of the "google image searches" (GIS) were for nude pictures.

    ==before we get off on a side tangent, the plural of GIS is GIS, not GIS's. TYVM ==

    • CommentAuthorlvdpb
    • CommentTimeJun 4th 2006
     

    George Bush makes an Al Gore-ism. President Bush claims that via federal funding of computer search capabilities, and technology, that his administration is responsible for the invention of the iPod.

    See following link for exact text of his rather ditzy comments:
    <http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/20/bush-government-research-developed-ipod/>

    worth a shirt?

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeJun 4th 2006 edited
     

    I just did a bunch of research, and these are the most interesting items that I could find.

    • In "blue states", Internet users favor Google over Yahoo by a 4-to-1 margin, whereas in "red states", Yahoo is slightly more popular.

    • The Chinese version of Google links to at least 12,000 pages of United States goverment information that is illegal to disseminate in the U.S., and is thus not indexed by the American version of Google.

    • A search for "search engine" on Yahoo returns Yahoo as the first result, whereas the same search on Google returns Google first.

    • The average URL length of entries in the Google index is 137 characters.

    • While AltaVista paid $3.3 million for their domain name, Google got theirs for only $5 when InterNic was having a buy-one-get-one-half-off sale.

    • CommentAuthorLyet
    • CommentTimeJun 4th 2006 edited
     

    *The urban legend search engine "Snopes.com" recieves approximately 1 hit for every 48.5 spam emails perpetuating those urban legends.

    *The most commonly misspelled word typed into Google is 'lesbian.'

    *Google changes their logo image approximately 23 times a year, either for federal holidays or memorable dates and birthdates in history.

    *People who use Yahoo personals are 15% more likely to also use the Yahoo search engine as their primary search engine.

    *The average age of the person using Google.com is 13; Yahoo 19; Dogpile 29.

    *People over the age of 65 account for less than 1% of all search engine usage.

    *In late 2005, a doctoral student at Harvard penned a dissertation claiming that Napster was actually created by a small al-Qaeda operative group to test the spread of viruses as a possible digital precursor to 9/11 . For several weeks after the defense of that paper, all Google searches for "Napster" were monitored by the FTC until the dissertation was determined to be without backing.

    *It is possible to determine what TV show is broadcasting on the five major networks by monitoring the top searches in Yahoo.

    *The search engine "Ask Jeeves" has more registered domain names than any other search engine.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeJun 5th 2006
     

    In a recent poll of graduating high school seniors, Google was the most recognized search engine, followed closely by Yahoo.

    Although the domain name "Google" was registered as a result of a misspelling, the name itself comes from the founders' (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) dream to have the ability to search a googol web pages.

    "Googlewhacking", the attempt to find one unique hit by searching a combination of two or more words that can be found in the dictionary, has become a national pastime in Norway.

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    These are exactly what I'm looking for. Keep up the great work. Someone is gonna win a t-shirt!

    • CommentAuthorLyet
    • CommentTimeJun 5th 2006
     

    * Googling a US citizen's full name has a 63% chance of returning a link actually referring to that person.

    * It is estimated that only 1 in 89,000 people who search for the phrase "breast implants" is looking to have the surgery performed on herself.

    * Thanks to the proliferation of Internet search engines, the American Library Association estimates that by the year 2100, there will be no one alive able to use a card catalog

    *Rachel Ray is the most commonly searched-for chef on Google. On both Yahoo and Ask.com it's Emeril Lagasse.

    *47% of people ages 18 to 39 will use an internet search engine to self-diagnose an illness before seeing a doctor.

    • CommentAuthorLyet
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006
     

    The original name of Yahoo was going to be Hooray.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006
     

    AltaVista's Babelfish language translator was the most used translator in 2000. In 2005, however, only one in ten of those surveyed had ever heard of Babelfish.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006
     

    Speaking of Babelfish:

    • On April Fools Day each year, AltaVista's Babelfish translation web site intentionally gives completely wrong, yet humorous, translations.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeJun 8th 2006
     

    When asked to name a search engine, an astounding 94.0 percent of fifth-graders named Google, as compared to only 73.4 percent of college freshmen.

    Yahoo's "yodel-like" commercials were highly successful - Yahoo executives have revealed that after each of the first 50 airings, registrations for Yahoo accounts spiked.

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    Contest is closed. Great work everyone. I've made the front page update, and posted some interesting follow up elsewhere.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeJun 9th 2006
     

    Way to go Lyet! I wish I could've thought of anything worthwhile.

    • CommentAuthorLyet
    • CommentTimeJun 9th 2006
     

    I'm super pleased. What's funny is that I actually used a non-Yahoo search engine to find that little tidbit. Irony? Perhaps.

    • CommentAuthorSnakeDoctor
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2006 edited
     

    someone mentioned when search engine is googled, google is the first to come up.

    msn is actually the first followed by google uk then altavista and finally google

    the truth hurts

    EDIT:: just read the rules and now im wondering if this is going to be deleted, it is safe to say this site confuses me to death =s

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2006
     

    The difference is if you search for "search engine" or search engine. With quotes, I got google as first hit in google.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2006
     

    And if you search for engine search, you get links to car scrapyards and dealerships.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2006
     

    Just for the record, italics and underlining make no difference. That's just a difference in style between Taed and me. Asian languages don't typically use underlining, due to the character shaping of their alphabet.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeMar 8th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: Boiok

    Google gets about 112 million searches per day. The total of all the search engines added together equals 319 million. I ran a calculation on these figures, and, quite surprisingly, Google only gets 35% of the searches.

    More historical musings...

    Boiok hasn't been here in a few weeks, but I'm wondering if thinking "about 112 over about 319 means about 35 percent." qualifies as "running a calculation".

    And even though the contest is closed, I'll add this:

    Since the French pronounce Google "goo-ghell" they grabbed the domaine name Googel.com, too

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