victor - 11:34 pm on May 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

There's no way we can know -- not without the SE providers publishing independantly-audited figures.

All the counts from logs are of searches that "converted" (ie the searcher clicked a SERP entry -- there is probably an actual technical term for that).

They don't tell us how many searches don't convert --- or what SEs power the most non-converted searches.

So Ask / Jeeves *may* run 25% of all searches. If so, very few people click a SERPS entry with AJ compared to Google -- or, at least, very few click a SERPS entry that ends up at a site run by a WMW member.

That may not be very likely, but it is possible, and quoting from logs won't verify it one way of another.