europeforvisitors - 6:38 pm on May 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

55% for Google is way below what we experience, and 10% for MSN is just impossibly high. Others experiences may be quite different but every time one of these things come out, it just doesn't do justice to whats really going on in the world. According to this you could just skip Google and still catch 30% of the total traffic pie?

Google has an overwhelming share of my search referrals, with Yahoo and MSN far behind. And it isn't as if I did terribly in Yahoo and MSN: I could cite strings for which I rank #1 in Google, Yahoo, and MSN but get significant (or even noticeable) traffic only from Google.

As far as I can tell, my target audience just isn't using Yahoo or MSN--and I cater to a mainstream audience, not to techies or academics who might be expected to prefer Google over more "consumery" alternatives. So who is using those other search engines?