Google Still Kicking Butt

By Friday June 9, 2006

The list above are the stat results for search engines hitting this blog on June 7. It’s all a matter of horsepower and Google devotes more crawlers than the competition. It’s not really rocket science.



10 Comments
  1. Michael says:
    6/9/2006 at 2:04 am

    Maybe it’s good for ego surfers.

    But think about it.

    Is Google indexing your site every 42 seconds really good use of your bandwidth?

    You posted 12 stories during the day.

    I think AltaVista, Netscape and Lycos have a better grasp on how and when to index your site.

  2. SuitCase says:
    6/9/2006 at 2:27 am

    Perhaps the technology-literate audience of this blog makes the chart a bit skewed. To be honest, I haven’t really heard of anyone using Yahoo search in years, but I often hear it said they command between 30 and 40% of all seach queries. These are probably in the less sophisticated end of the market, which do not get much involved in blogs.

  3. Eideard says:
    6/9/2006 at 3:58 am

    I wonder if Yahoo wins more hits outside the US?

    My own blog — mostly a focus of my favorites posts at DU — averages 30-55% hits from outside the USA. Yahoo’s percentage often matches or exceeds Google.

    Just checked, this morning, and Google has 57%, Yahoo has 43%.

  4. forrest says:
    6/9/2006 at 4:47 am

    For some that are not as technically inclined, they are usually content with the search engine they first stumble upon and continue using. There’s something about how people do not like change.

    For instance, Google is a search engine, it does it very well. But some use a web portal like Yahoo and MSN because they first stumbled upon it years ago and continue to use it because that’s what people had grew to become accustomed to. It may be a no-brainer for some that Google has the largest index of things on the web, but try converting someone that is devoted to using Yahoo and see what happens. They tell you that it’s not just the search functionality that they use and that they are perfectly fine with going to one source for their news, games, etc. as well as their search needs.

    With that said, the less technically inclined also don’t see the difference in the results they get using these different search engines. They certainly have no idea how to do more efficient Boolean searches either.

  5. Podesta says:
    6/9/2006 at 5:09 am

    The only place I’m aware of that still relies on Yahoo search is Netzero, an atrocious, but cheap ISP. MSN owns the former WebTV so it can control some of the search market from there. However, neither proprietary site seems to be competition from Google, i.e, savvy users likely still use Google despite having Yahoo or MSN built in.

  6. trees says:
    6/9/2006 at 5:16 am

    Also try telling a google user that other search engines also work. They just won’t try anything else. So I guess people just don’t like to try anything different. I hear some companies use this as there business model.

  7. John C Dvorak says:
    6/9/2006 at 6:39 am

    Yes, our comments are also indexed as I have the function enabled. So the additional scans do something other than waste bandwidth.

    #1 Michael — “but think abou it” note: Maybe YOU should think about it. “Accesses” does not mean complete site analysis. One look at the home page requires about 30-40 accesses. The way I interpret these numbers tells me Google is probably doing one semi-complete analysis a day. And that can only be of maybe 50 pages out of over a thousand. The other players are doing partial looks of a few pages. Nobody is continually pounding the site.

  8. Clockwork says:
    6/9/2006 at 8:58 am

    John, it’s probably Google Reader’s (RSS-feed) aggregator that’s causing most of those hits.

    I, for one, have Google’s Reader new Module up on my Google Personal Homepage. It’s the best thing since sliced bread! I posted about it here: http://kideternal.livejournal.com/188843.html

    BTW, for some reason following an RSS feed’s link to your site doesn’t display the post’s text/picture/comments until I click its header, which essentially reloads the page. The URLs are exactly the same, so I imagine there’s server-side script to blame; something that keeps bandwidth-costs down, perhaps. Just a minor nuisance.

  9. John C Dvorak says:
    6/9/2006 at 12:55 pm

    I’ll look into it..thanks

  10. Steph says:
    6/10/2006 at 8:14 am

    i get a lot more from msn than i do yahoo, but most are from google.

    and 98% of my readers use IE … it makes me so sad.


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