Rankings- The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines for August
This post is to update the current rankings for the top 100 alternative search engines that have been monthly edited by Charles S. Knight of AltSearchEngines. 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 be no longer true or have been changed. This update is overdue. The last post on ranking was in Feb 2007.
Global Update
The August list of the top 100 alternative search engines consists of many search engines from different countries and languages. Thus, ranking for these search engines should be based on a global format. A global ranking for both known and unknown search engines in the world wide web has been examined using Zipfian distribution in this post. The final distribution (graph) is reproduced here.
The above graph shows that answers.com, the only alternative search engine, is in the top 10 and is close to 1% of the global search market share (0.75 %). Total search share of the remainders (99 engines) is less than 1% and rankings are from 23rd to 756th. The graph also indicates that number of global search engines is close 1000.
SEngines Big4 | Search Engines Google.com | Search Engines Google.com | Share % 60.5000 | Daily Searches 490,303,450 |
Global Search Traffics for the Big 4, top 100 Alternatives and missing search engines are illustrated in the graph shown below.
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4 comments:
What happened to Rollyo? They went from 0.05% market share with 127k queries/day in Feb to MIA. Same for Del.icio.us and local.com. AOL and A9 also disappeared. Did they get rolled up into Google and MSN? Any ideas?
Other search engines such as Rollyo, Del.icio.us, local, AOL, A9, etc. are still there. This post is made based on the August list, the top 100 alternative search engines which does not included the mentioned SE's but the Feb list did. In other post, the global rankings consists of approximated 1000 SE's including BIG 4, 100 altSE's, other known and unknown SEs. A list of the top 100 Search Engines based on the Global market share is coming.
This is cool but SupplyFrame (http://www.supplyframe.com) should be on this list. We delivered 450,000 searches last month. That would put us at number 56!
Interesting…so, I’m assuming it would work for any web site. For example I have a successful work at home business online, if I apply the same principal it will work for my site as well?
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