Thread: Interesting search engine facts and figures

• Compete ranks as the most popular engine at 74% of the search market, Yahoo has 16%, Bing has 6%, Ask 2% and AOL 1%
• The 3 most popular searches in 2008 were: Sarah Palin, Heathe Ledger and Barak Obama.
• 73% of all online transaction begins with search engines, 85% of users never go past page 1.
• Some of the most popular searches in US in 2008 were: "what is love" In india two of the most popular searches were "How to kiss" and "how to lose weight"
• Google grew 49% in US last year.
• About 13 billion searches are made by Internet users monthly.

I see some interesting search strings. "what is love" is definitely the question :)

These figures are very important to us. Thank you for sharing with each other and we can learn from it .

Bing has increased and i think MS is forcing all its traffic from live and msn to bing

Originally Posted by temi

• Compete ranks as the most popular engine at 74% of the search market, Yahoo has 16%, Bing has 6%, Ask 2% and AOL 1%
• The 3 most popular searches in 2008 were: Sarah Palin, Heathe Ledger and Barak Obama.
• 73% of all online transaction begins with search engines, 85% of users never go past page 1.
• Some of the most popular searches in US in 2008 were: "what is love" In india two of the most popular searches were "How to kiss" and "how to lose weight"
• Google grew 49% in US last year.
• About 13 billion searches are made by Internet users monthly.

Its really a good information. What's the source to find such type of information.

Thanks for the great, Facts especially about the Zeitgeist

"73% of all online transaction begins with search engines, 85% of users never go past page 1."

God tell me how to make my site appear in page 1!!!!!!!!!

Don't you mean Google instead of Compete? I think Google has about 60% of the market

Interesting... specially the SE results :)

Interesting facts. Thanks for sharing! :)