{"id":243,"date":"2009-02-09T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/google-monoculture\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T16:37:08","slug":"google-monoculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/google-monoculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Monoculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Atwood remarked<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Google delivers 350x<\/strong> the traffic to Stack Overflow that the next best so-called “search engine” does. Three hundred and fifty times!<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All I can say is that’s a Belgium<\/a> big number!<\/p>\n

Here’s his data:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Search Engine<\/td>\nVisits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\n3,417,919<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yahoo<\/td>\n9,779<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Live<\/td>\n5,638<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Search<\/td>\n2,961<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AOL<\/td>\n1,274<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ask<\/td>\n1,186<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MSN<\/td>\n1,177<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Altavista<\/td>\n202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yandex<\/td>\n191<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seznam<\/td>\n103<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The server logs for vgable.com<\/a>, for 2008, show google giving me a much more modest 3.6x<\/strong> of my traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
13 different refering search engines<\/th>\nPages<\/th>\nPercent<\/th>\nHits<\/th>\nPercent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/a><\/td>\n3039<\/td>\n72.8 %<\/td>\n3047<\/td>\n72.3 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows Live<\/a><\/td>\n1055<\/td>\n25.3 %<\/td>\n1055<\/td>\n25 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google (Images)<\/a><\/td>\n40<\/td>\n0.9 %<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n0.9 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yahoo!<\/a><\/td>\n12<\/td>\n0.2 %<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n0.2 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MSN Search<\/a><\/td>\n7<\/td>\n0.1 %<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n0.1 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unknown search engines<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google (cache)<\/a><\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n0.8 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scroogle<\/a><\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
del.icio.us<\/a> (Social Bookmark)<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AOL<\/a><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clusty<\/a><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dogpile<\/a><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AltaVista<\/a><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n

Of course, having 3.6x as much market share as everyone else combined<\/em> is still market domination<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I can’t speculate why the numbers for my niche website<\/a> are different from Attwood’s niche website (especially w.r.t Live Search).<\/p>\n

But Yahoo’s consistently irrelevant 0.3% and 0.2% of referrals looks especially bad for them. Google has too few competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Atwood remarked, Google delivers 350x the traffic to Stack Overflow that the next best so-called “search engine” does. Three hundred and fifty times! All I can say is that’s a Belgium big number! Here’s his data: Search Engine Visits Google 3,417,919 Yahoo 9,779 Live 5,638 Search 2,961 AOL 1,274 Ask 1,186 MSN 1,177 Altavista […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[84,342,81,337,343,344],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-business","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-search","tag-world-domination","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}