Google's real market share

Bing gets navigational searches, keeps traffic on MS sites

[graeme_p]

An excellent article on Google's real market share, essentally why Comscore and similar numbers are wrong, from the founder of DuckDuckGo:

[gabrielweinberg.com ]

The major points are:

1) Its possible that Bing and Yahoo keep a higher proportion of searchers on their own sites.
2) Its likely that Bing and Yahoo get a much higher proportion of navigational searches

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

All I know is that here in the UK I see around 95% of my traffic coming from Google. I have always wondered about the stats from the US and thought it unlikely that Google would be so much in front over here.

[piatkow]

A tiny bit more than I get (UK). G acounts for around 91% of search traffic. I don't have the stats as a percentage of total traffic, a rough and ready look at a dozen recent hits suggests something in the region of 50% is directly from search engines but most of the rest looks like links from the site that G puts above us on a couple of key queries so they are probably indirectly from G.

[g1smd]

If a site had 80% visitors referred by other sites, and 15% traffic coming from Google search, would you think that Google would be working on ways to ensure that the traffic came through their results instead so they could get eyeballs on the ads which no one clicks?

[graeme_p]

MY main site gets 95% of search traffic from Google, a smaller one 92%, and my personal (not for profit) blog gets 95%. The two sites are aimed at the same niche, but the blog is very different. All are UK oriented to some extent, bt none gets more than 40% UK traffic.