Search Engine's Traffic

Google Inc.’s growth and development of new online services over the past few years have had people talking.  Yet, in spite of all their new roll-outs, Google Search from google.com is still their biggest source of traffic.

Their search site, Google.com, gets almost 80 percent of all the visits.  (Note: Google is the top rated search engine according to NetRatings. The Internet research firm estimates there were nearly 3 billion Google searches in March 2006.) 

Google’s image search engine draws 9.5 percent of the visits, followed by Gmail with 5.5 percent and Google News with 1.49 percent, according to a blog posting by Bill Tancer, Hitwise’s general research manager.  The remainder of Google sites, including Google Maps and Froogle, receive less than 1 percent of visits, he writes.

Yahoo and MSN stats:

Most visits to Yahoo sites are to Yahoo Mail with 33 percent, followed by the Yahoo.com home page with 32 percent, while Yahoo Search gets only 9.8 percent, according to Tancer.

At MSN Hotmail gets the most visits – 41 percent, followed by the MSN.com home page with 33 percent, with MSN Search at third with 16 percent.

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