Rankings: The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
(Updated) This post is to introduce the current rankings for the top 100 alternative search engines that were introduced by Charles S. Knight, SEO. The rankings should be used for a purpose of relative comparison among these alternative search engines since they are based on many assumptions that may not be true.
The top 100 list was first appeared under title “Top 100+ Search Engines“ (Jan 3, 2007) and then it was modified for The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines on Jan 29, 2007. Our SearchTheWeb2 is on both lists even this new search engine was less than two weeks old.
Estimated Search Shares for the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
The online search market is dominated by the big four: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com. In the second article, Charles wrote that “market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches” Is 99.99% this true number of percentage? Nobody know the true number but there were several numbers around. Let's have a look at the estimated share of the number of searches that happened in the United States in October 2006 from various sources as shown in the below table.
Month | comScore | NetRatings | Hitwise | Average |
Ranking
The average shares from the above table and our inhouse stats were used to estimate the search rankings and share percentage for each alternative search engines. The results are shown in the below table. Note that the total percentage of all listed search engines is less than 100% due to the market shares of the unlisted search engines that did not make the list. Daily searches for each alternative search engine based on a total daily online searches of 250 miilions are also listed in the table for comparison.
Estimated Search Shares by Various Search Engines as of Feb 2007 from SearchTheWeb2.com
ESt. | Search www.digg.com www.local.com www.ditto.com www.liveplasma.com www.mojeek.com www.speegle.com www.mindset.research.yahoo.com | Share | Daily N/A |
Search Engine Market Share follows "The Long Tail"
The below graph illustrates “The Long Tail” for the search engines. The long tail is so tiny to see since the popular head of Google and Yahoo is so big.
Under a microscope (using a semi-log plot), we can exam its long tail. It clearly shows that the long tail for the alternative search engines is again dominated by a few such as AOL, Digg and Del.icio.us.
The ranking will be updated monthly.
3 comments:
Hi, my name is Charles Knight and I am the author of the "Top 100 Alternative Search Engines." I need to confess that my number, 99.99%, while based on statistics from another site, is really more of a literary device than a scientific fact. 95.45% just isn't as catchy, even if it is more accurate. Likewise my use of the term "Search Engine" could better be described, in light of some of my choices, as "Alternative Search Engines and Search Related Sites." So, to smooth ruffled feathers, I'll just be more clear as updates are released. -Charles Knight SEO
Charles,
It's nice of you to call on. A value of 99.99% or 95.45% can be rounded off to be 100%, anyway. Hope to see your updated list soon.
Happy New Year to you with a year of Golden Pig for a double happiness!
Has or can this be update? A brand new list comes out Monday July 2. Thanks,
Charles@readwriteweb.com
www.altsearchengines.com
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