Percentage of searches made via Partners

[jbauder]

anyone have estimates for the percentages of searches that are made at google.com vs made at their partner sites?

[Brett_Tabke]

I looked high and low [webmasterworld.com] for this figure, and the only available stat I could find was the OneStat [onestat.com] figure.

[rfgdxm1]

I'm rather surprised that has:

5. Terra Lycos 2.8%
6. Altavista 2.5%
7. Askjeeves 1.5%

I just checked the logs from one of my sites this month. 29 hits for ask.com, 14 for Altavista and 9 for Lycos. And my sites are doing VERY well on all those engines. I always see more from ask.com. Users of my sites will tend to skew young, so this might be relevant. This compares to over 600 from Google direct, about 210 from Yahoo, and about 80 from AOL. I have a little over 100 from MSN, but my Looksmart listing may have a lot to do with this.

[jbauder]

thanks I did quite a bit of digging myself, trying to figure what the implications would be if yahoo switched to inktomi, and if aol decided to do something (doesn't seem nearly as likely)

I was amazed at that financial times article that said 200 million searches per day for google ...

Also I have really good rankings at Fast, but don't seem to get much traffic, are Lycos and AllTheWeb the only places they are displayed?

Any chance for them to gain a partner (msn or aol maybe)in this shake up with (Over, Fast, and Alta Vista)

thanks great forum you got

[rfgdxm1]

The big IF is Yahoo/Ink. If Yahoo switches to Ink, which seems likely, that will make Google far less dominant.