Search Engine Useage

[NYCNative]

I am trying to convince my bosses that getting on every dinky search engine is not necessary.

I am looking for real numbers that show him that most internet users go for one of a handful of search engines.

I am trying to impart to him that if we had a presence on just Google and Yahoo alone that we would be in great shape.

Can anyone point me to meaningful stats on this subject?

[albert]

Try this thread:

[webmasterworld.com ]

[ritualcoffee]

This is one of the latest I have seen:
[internetnews.com...]

[quotations]

Here are some results for a 6500 page site across a few million searches. You might want to add MSN/Looksmart/Inktomi to the mix.

Freefind is the local site specific search.

4.31% [search.freefind.com...]
3.62% [google.com...]
1.28% [search.yahoo.com...]
0.87% [search.yahoo.com...]
0.77% [web.ask.com...]
0.63% [search.msn.com...]
0.41% [aolsearch.aol.com...]
0.35% [google.ca...]
0.28% [search.msn.com...]
0.26% [search.msn.com...]
0.12% [google.com.au...]
0.12% [google.co.uk...]
0.06% [search.lycos.com...]
0.05% [uk.search.yahoo.com...]
0.05% [search.netscape.com...]
0.04% [google.com...]
0.03% [ask.co.uk...]
0.02% [google.nl...]
0.01% [search.msn.com...]

[webwoman]

All the above - plus, you might ask him how many search engines *he* uses when he wants to find something on the internet. It works every time :)