No here's a stats oddity

latest stats for a UK based small business site

[IanTurner]

Ask Jeeves 32%
Google 26%
MSN 26%

[4eyes]

Yeah, I have a similar site - its showing AskJeeves as second to Google by a 'nads'

I keep meaning to dig in and find out why.

It cetainly made me rethink some of my ideas on Ask.

[Mark_A]

assuming it is not that google returns are low Ian I would say thats a great result?

Anything indicate different types of users from ask?

[IanTurner]

I have nothing to indicate that Google results are particularly poor.

The ask results seem to be solid in quality as well as numbers.

[Smiley]

Ian,

Is this a business to customer site?

Is there a referal keyphrase that is picking up on Ask and not on Google (that you might not currently be aware of)?

Smiley

[Shak]

I take it we are talking about NON paid listings...

Shak

[cabman]

Certainy are strange stats.

Over what period and how many are they?

[IanTurner]

Yes its a B2C site and non paid listings. The site is doing 20-30 visitors / day (in a specialist marketplace) Results were for the last month.

Having looked at the referral strings there is one important word which Google ignores which Ask has in almost all its referrals.

[Smiley]

Shame you can't get that word to work on Google too :)

[IanTurner]

Strange thing is that I have SERPs on the terms in Google, AOL et al actually give me results on the Ask term. it just doesn't seem to generate anything from Google itself.

[Smiley]

Maybe because many users on Ask really do ask:

"How does a ...."
"Where can I find ...."

Ask's branding has effected the way their users search :)

[tosspot17]

Wow. that kind of puts mine to shame.
I wish I was a little less reliant on Google.

1 Google__________________52.73%
2 Yahoo___________________20.32%
3 Microsoft Network_________14.50%
4 AOL NetFind_____________9.77%
5 Lycos___________________0.98%
6 AltaVista________________0.95%
7 Ask Jeeves______________0.21%

This is all traffic though - for a site getting around 4000 uniques a month.