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    • ON: Wed Mar 5th 15:17 PM
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      Is Microsoft Screening Its Search Results?
      Interesting theory. I've always noticed an enormous disparity in traffic to my site from Google vs other search engines.

      My site has both Google Adsense ads and the Google Search feature on just about every page.

      I just did some checking, and here is a table of results for referrals from search engines for the last week in Feb in both 08 and 07. Apologies for the screwy formatting.

      Year 2008 2007
      Google 66,000 66,000
      Yahoo 2,860 2,812
      MSN 547 1,466

      Google numbers are estimates because my web analysis program lists out every different google domain (for different countries) separately, and I get a bit lazy when it comes to adding in, eg, 24 more referrals from Lithuania. :)

      You can draw your own conclusions from these numbers as you wish. Suffice it to say that Google and Yahoo referrals remained close to identical, while MSN referrals dropped to a third their earlier level.



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