Statistics of search engine "searches"

Proportion of searches in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

[fischermx]

Hi,

I'm trying to find out what is the proportion of searches done in Google, Yahoo, MSN and other less big search engines. I already googled it but was buried in a sea of non-related information.

I don't pretend an exact information, though, it that exists, would be great. I think all I have to do is to get each engine's claim of "we server N amount of searches a month" and do the simples math.

Does anybody have a rough estimate on the amount of searches in this three SEs?

[todd_c]

Here is a good link with the % for search enginees. The email is about non referred traffic but it answers your questions

[webmasterworld.com...]

My experience search engine traffic makes up 1o to 30/40 percent of traffic. Google about 1/3 of the 10 to 30% Generally 50 to 70% is direct traffic or non referred traffic. Doing a search in this site on non referred traffic will help you answer your question

[fischermx]

Thanks for the information.

I think I may should ask :
Does anybody knows how many searches a month are served by Google?
Same for Yahoo?
Same for MSN?

[Reid]

Thats what 'traffic' is - how many searches a month. It goes up and down like a market but the percentages shows a comparison of size (amount of searches).

[teaperson]

SearchEngineWatch gathers publicly-released data from various web ratings firms which survey users.

According to Comscore MediaMetrix's survey in December, Google had a 35% share of searches, Yahoo 32%, and MSN 16%.

More details at [searchenginewatch.com...]

I should add that there is a really large margin of error to Comscore's data, which they don't release. But there's no other, better data available.