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My industry is non tech/consumer oriented. My present Yahoogoogle traffic is around 40% (higher than google itself )...i think its high because of the non techy nature of my site.
I expect to loose immediately this entire 40% traffic but think will regain 10 - 12% in couple of months due to the large chunk of users migrating from yahoo to google because of the poor quality yahoo-ink results...
Guys pls jumb in and give your figs ...
[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 8:54 pm (utc) on Sep. 25, 2002]
[edit reason] title fix [/edit]
Google: 56%
Yahoogle: 4.8%
My site is tech oriented though, kinda the opposite of yours. I don't get much traffic from MSN now.
Ink just doesn't cover as many pages as Google.
I would expect to get about the same in replacement from Inktohoo.
Course my stats are lousy. Take it for what its worth.
Yes, but I think it would be better if they did make the switch (not to Inktomi though, something like Fast or Teoma probably).
Too much Google is dangerous for all of us.
Google 55%
Yahoogle 14%
AOogLe 10%
MSNktomi 9%
FAST/All the Web 4%
Asta la Vista 3%
Netscapoogle 2.5%
Darn scary that we are getting 70-90% of our traffic from one SE.
1 Google -- 61.38%
2 Yahoo -- 28.05%
3 AOL NetFind -- 7.04%
4 Microsoft Network -- 1.50%
5 Lycos --1.25%
6 AltaVista -- 0.37%
7 iWon -- 0.37%
I think I will suffer with Ink vs Google @ Yahoo...
>Thankfully I rank well for 'Website Matches'on Yahoo! so i tend to come up for my keywords on yahoo before they get to the Yahoogle pages. Although I will lose a small percentage....I hope they stick with Google personally anyway as I dont think it will help Yahoo if they change...they will lose searchers I believe. <
That's me to a T.
Re other postings about not having all one's egss in one basket: It is true that all one's eggs in one basket is not always good, but as someone else said (can't remember who -- Warren Buffet?) long ago (re the stock market): put all your eggs in one basket (if it is a good basket), and then watch it very very carefully.
I'd expect Inktomi would make up 4% if Yahoo switched, so a 1% loss.
Then I have to figure that you are one of the very few who think so. ;) From what I can see, it doesn't look like Wisenut is even out of beta yet. Perhaps that will change with Looksmart buying them.
To be honest that would make it good fun and shock a few people too! I would say that GigaBlast would probably have to do a little work on the over spamming of keywords on page.
As far as i remember G was quite well known well before y! used them, there were separate sections for them in webmaster forums, academics and hi tech people used it a lot, and our percentage of google referrals were around 20% well before Y! used them.
Gigablasts development is at an incredibly relativly primitive state of development compared to Google when y! first incorporated their results. And Google awareness was also much much higher then than Giga is now. I think G! already had a staff including those famous gaggle of phd's while Giga seems to have one guy, his dog, and a database that keeps on crashing!
The only place i hear about gigablast is WebmasterWorld where people usually get excited when they see their sites indexed immediately. It seems to cloud the fact that nobody uses it except for webmasters looking at their positions and trying to feel good!
Sorry for being off topic. I think its pretty hard for me what we would lose. Suddenly our MSN referrals have gone skyward, so if that is reflecting Inktomi, we are not toot worried, despit Yahoogle delivering is around 17% of our referrals.
[edited by: chiyo at 10:49 am (utc) on Sep. 26, 2002]
Y!, with its broad brand, however, did give Google a big push to speed up it's gaining the position of "everyman's" search engine it has now.
(Not to be confused with "Everyman" of repute around here for his anti-google site! I dont think Goog is his fave search engine somehow :)
I was surprised when I saw it #1 just after I added it.
/edit Gigablast not Gigabot
