The great search engine divide?
Was just looking over my domains’ stats and noticed that the once great divide between Google and the others has somewhat shortened in recent times.
Here’s the figures of people landing on one of my pages from a search engine:
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As you can see above (looking at the HITS percentage column), Google’s at 52.8% with MSN second, at 40.6%.
From a quick “look over” of a few stats, the majority (but not all) of those that use the MSN search engine are from non-US IPs.
Very interesting. Although Yahoo is third, I would actually have thought their figures would be higher than that.
Then again, this is just my blog/domain, so it’s perhaps not representatitve of figures others may have.
Also, the figures are for the month of October until now.
If I go back in time, a little. The figures for September have Google at 82.8%, MSN at 12.2% and then trailing further back, Yahoo at 3.4%.
And now the August figures:
Google: 89.3%, MSN: 5.3%, Yahoo: 3.3%
The stats are very puzzling.
So let’s explore the other stats further.
So what are the top 3 search engine spiders, indexing my site?
1. Googlebot 3665 Hits
2. Inktomi 1541 Hits
3. MSNbot 1456 Hits
Digging deeper, I think I’ve probably found the explaination I was after:
The top requested page, aside from the RSS feeds was the following:
http://will.id.au/blog/archive/2005/01/23/msn-messenger-error-message-81000378
It’s had 1914 hits on it’s own. It’s a page that gets hits each and everytime MSN Messenger is down for some users, which judging from the frequency of visit, has happened 3 times in the past week or so. (On the 15th, 19th and 23rd of this month).
My personal preference on search engine?
It’s still Google first, then Yahoo, then MSN.