UK Search engine usage - statistics?

[henlord]

Hi All,

I have been searching for a while now but have had no luck with producing a valid statistic for the number of searches performed in the UK per day (or per month, year, whatever!)

Does any one out there have a recent figure, or any ideas as to where I could look to obtain such a statistic.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Emma

[Shak]

Emma,

welcome to webmasterworld.

this question is often raised amongs journalists and even search engines themselves.

my own research puts the number at around 900 million search queries per mth originated in the UK.

some say higher, some say around 600 million.

Shak

[henlord]

Wow!

Thank you ever so much for replying so quickly - that is really useful to me

Cheers!

Emma

[jetboy_70]

National Statistics is the place to go. The Government produce figures for the percentage of UK adults 'searching' on the net. Maybe I'm over-simplifying, but to me that means search engines. Get the UK population figures from the same place and you can soon generate some useful stats.

You're not going to get 'searches per day' from here, but it's a good place to start.

[sem4u]

Google claims that 200 million searches are carried out on Google sites around the world each day.

If searches from the UK have 5-10% of this figure, i.e. 10-20 million searches a day, then it equates to roughly 300-600 million searches per month.

If Google then accounts for 50% of all internet searches then a figure of at least 600 million is quite believable.

[jetboy_70]

You can get a figure of 25,417,000 UK adults searching the net from NS (based on September's figures), so Shak's figures of 600M (or even 900M) actual searches seem realistic to me.

[Shak]

jetboy, i appreciate where you are coming from.

but # of people on the web, and # of searches made have NO relevance mate.

Shak

[georgeek]

but # of people on the web, and # of searches made have NO relevance mate.

No relevance to what? Or do you mean correlation?