Overture April search figures showing

[Woz]

Not sure if this has already been mentioned or not, but just in case.

[theaustrianoak]

Nope.. you're the first.

April figures were actually up 3 days ago.

[dzinerbear]

Perhaps its a stupid question, but I've always wondered what search engine is Overture getting these results from?

[John_Creed]

It's not a stupid question. I've wondered the same thing as well.

[Shak]

they get the results from all of their partners,

so far the UK, that would include:

msn, aol, freeserve, alta vista and others.

I will let 1 of our USA friends answer in relation to Overture.com

Shak

[Chris_R]

As others have mentioned before - take these figures with a grain of salt. Automated programs that do searches are widely suspected of tainting the results.

[canuck]

Overture's USA Partners include:

Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, AltaVista, Infospace, CNET, iWon, Excite, Web Crawler, etc.

Of course their Former Partner list is almost longer now ;)

[percentages]

Overture numbers are still a good indication of Yahoo and MSN popularity (the rest aren't worth counting IMHO).

But, the point is if Overture increases popularity then so must Yahoo and MSN.

I see an average CTR of less than 5% on Overture....which means 95% for their partners. Now that is worth having!

[oLeon]

they get the results from all of their partners

I assume it's the same in Germany, isn't it?

So the partners in Germany are now
Yahoo.de, T-Online.de (ISP), Altavista.de, Lycos.de, Fireball.de, MSN.de, AOL.de, Freenet.de (ISP), Dino-Online.de, Tiscali.de, GMX.de ...

[kapow]

Does anyone monitor key word trends on Overture? (I don't have time). It would be interesting to hear the observations of anyone who watches Overture words.

[Tropical Island]

Oleon,

Over DE still provides such a low volume of traffic that one wonders where all the German searchers go. My bet is Google.