It’s looking like my previous rant about Google was a little premature– they seem to be having a few technical difficulties lately which would explain the crappiness of their results. So now I’m going to say something positive about them, which is that they still kick ass compared to other search engines! And I mean that from a totally self-serving content publisher’s point of view…
Recent vistors via search engine
| Google (Images) | 803 | 53.1 % |
| 649 | 42.9 % | |
| Yahoo | 23 | 1.5 % |
| MSN | 18 | 1.1 % |
| Ask Jeeves | 7 | 0.4 % |
| Dogpile | 4 | 0.2 % |
| Unknown search engines | 2 | 0.1 % |
| Excite | 1 | 0 % |
| Search.com | 1 | 0 % |
| Mamma | 1 | 0 % |
| AOL | 1 | 0 % |
That’s a huge difference between Google and Yahoo there… although I could probably get by without Google Images, which serves mostly to help people harvest LiveJournal avatars from my site (I know this because a significant proportion of my bandwidth goes into serving these requests).
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Top 10 search terms this month: Father Ted ~ Dalek ~ Hubble Telescope ~ Cutting your own hair ~ Monochrome ~ Shiny things ~ Beautiful things ~ Beautiful scene ~ Atheist symbol ~ Hax ~ Color blindness