Germany, Austria, Switzerland - or just Europe

statistics for google

[HuhuFruFru]

do you know of any statistics about the use of google and other search engines in these countries (or just for europe) is there any real competition in europe for google? I think in the us with msn, aol, yahoo it's a little bit different right?

[Sinner_G]

Check the forum European Search Engines [webmasterworld.com].

[Rumbas]

>real competition in europe for google

I'd say so. Take a look in the FAST Forum [webmasterworld.com]. Fast is pretty important in Europe.

[instand1]

www.webhits.de
gives good overview on its page
[webhits.de...]
Google has 58% plus Yahoo 9% plus some small partners.
Do not overestimate FAST. At least in Germany its major partner is t-online. But they have only 4% of searches in Germany.

[vitaplease]

Nice one instand1,

had not seen a good German overview yet.

[heini]

The Webhits stats are derived from graphical counters on websites. Many many sites and most big sites do not have those counters.
Nevertheless the general trends meet reality. Exact measurement of course is not to be achieved by such a method.

[muesli]

regarding austria, you may IMO disregard anything besides google, yahoo and msn-address-bar-search.
muesli

[c3oc3o]

Here is a report on the top web properties in Austria from June 2002:
[ereportsacn.netratings.com...]

1. Google 38.41%
3. MSN 37.36%
5. Yahoo! 25.00%
10. Lycos Network 17.34%

[heini]

Yep, MSN clicks from Austria make for great traffic, very worthwile.