Anyone get better results from other SEs?

[futureX]

Just wondering if anyone here gets more hits from other search engines other than google. For my site (still rather new) google & yahoo are mostly the only contributors, even though I have great rankings in the other search engines.

Lets take alltheweb for example using one of my top terms recently:

google search term: keyword product media
number one and number 9 spot

alltheweb search term: keyword product media
number 3,5 & 10 spot

There are better examples where i am number one inalltheweb and lower in google, but still get more from google, is this due to the audience of my site? 90% of my SE traffic comes from G and Y , the rest is pretty sporadic :/

[HitProf]

To my *big* surprise I found MSN beating Google in the april stats I recieved this morning from a client. Site has been optimised recently and is doing well in both.

added: In many other cases what you describe isn't uncommon futureX, Google is by far the biggest player. AltaVista could bring in some traffic (10%?) as well.

[edited by: HitProf at 2:32 pm (utc) on May 5, 2003]

[Mohamed_E]

> 90% of my SE traffic comes from G and Y , the rest is pretty sporadic.

Seems pretty common experience (with some obvious exceptions). I get 85% Google, 10% MSN (all Ink) and a whopping 5% for all others.

But once Yahoo stops using Google the numbers will change fast! My 85% Google breaks down as 60% Google, 20% Yahoo, 5% other partners. So if Yahoo starts using Ink I will be getting 30% Ink (assuming MSN sticks with them).

[rcjordan]

>MSN beating

No single SE matches google, but it's not supplying the majority of my total SE traffic.

[Canary]

I just had a really good ATW update :)

Currently approx

60% Google and partners
30% ATW and partners
and the rest less than 10%

Very new site though and hopefully when Google updates the balance will shift back towards Google.

[futureX]

It jsut seems to me like the traffic isnt there, theres nothing wrong with their algos. And SEs get crap loads of traffic, but i guess every search is uniqe and theres just not enough going to google's competition.