I was approached by a Yellow Pages salesman and we were talking about different search engines. He gave me this link on how the search engines rank against each other on Google Trends. Please view the link and tell me what this means. I did not have a response for my salesman. Does this mean that Yahoo gets more traffic than Google? http://www.google.com/trends?q=google.com%2C+yahoo.com%2C+msn.com%2C+bing.com%2C+ask.com&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
Not 100% sure, but my guess is that people don't "search" for google.com from within google. I suspect that if you were using yahoo.com the inverse would be true since you wouldn't type yahoo.com into a yahoo search query box. Just my quick stab at an explanation.
This will give you a more accurate view: http://www.google.com/trends?q=www.google,+www.yahoo&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
Second on this. Why do peoples has to search for "search engine" or "Google.com" in Google.com? It does not make any sense. However, another possible reason is Yahoo is the most preferred by some country like Japan. He may show a stats of Yahoo in Japan to you.
Thanks for that, but why using the www. rather than the google.com, yahoo.com, ect a more accurate view? I really want to shut this salesman down because we all know that Google gets more traffic.
Well why do you wanna do business when he is not right according to your opinion? Did I get it right hmm
It's obvious that the two companies are fighting for the leader position but, the latest statistics are presenting Google as a winner. I have always preferred Google over yahoo. When doing searches Google seems to always come up with what I need. The only reason google is as famous as it is now is because it was simple. A logo and a search box. That was it.
That's got nothing to do with how many people use the respective search engines. For data on that hitwise is your best source - http://www.hitwise.com/us/datacenter/main/dashboard-10133.html which shows Google having over 71% of search over all industry categories in the USA for the last month (go back to the hitwise home page and you can see similar for some different countries - over 65% for Singapore, over 80% for Australia etc)
No the link does NOT show "how the search engines rank against each other on Google Trends" what it shows is how often people search for those terms in GOOGLE. As stated already it is pointless to search for google when already in google "Does this mean that Yahoo gets more traffic than Google? " NO it means people use google to search for yahoo So the salesman either does not know what he is talking about or trying to scam you.
One clever salesman, that. Does he work for yahoo? Magda and Varant are right. I would add this. If you want to see the comparative traffic at Google, Yaho and Bing, here it is: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/google.com+yahoo.com+bing.com/ Hpwever, this is across all the subdomains and is not limited to search. Yahoo many popular services, such as Yahoo Shopping. It may be that the Google Trends result reflects searches for those especially -- it's hard to tell. By the way, Yahoo is shutting down Yahoo Search, it will be replaced internaly by Bing within one year. But if you really want to shut up your salesman, show them the data specifically on search (wheat we call the "Search Engine Market Share"): http://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4 I hope that shuts him right up. Let us know.
Yes share engine market share is drive by search and compete.com is exactly showing what it means , i second philipseo's analysis Anyways that guy was a salesman doing his job