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The End For Search Engines? By Danny Sullivan

 

The future of search engines and searching is up for grabs.

The ultimate goal of web site owners is to get traffic to their sites. (Not making money - that is the ultimate goal of the online entrepreneur (and yes it is possible to be both)).

Current schools of thinking amongst Internet Marketing Gurus For example - Ken Envoy - has a lot to answer to this with his great affiliate master course which covers getting traffic to your site, and how to turn that traffic into income.

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I've considered that this man, Ken Envoy, might actually be leading this trend by suggesting this fact, and being such a widely read writer, everyone who is anyone on the net follows his lead. Maybe he has shares in search engines?

Why else would search engines be so important?



If its not coming from search engines where will the traffic come from?

As more people get persuaded to come online, by way of Web TV, Wap, and other methods will they have less control over who they search through? Is it possibly to change the default home page on Web TV (If indeed it has one.... I've only spent a short time using it a couple of months ago) ... so will whoever controls portals used for web tv be responsible for traffic?

Its very hard to imagine how someone new to it, uses the internet. My parents have finally got a PC (borrowed off my brother in law) and have email. My mother can shop online with Tesco. Thats it. They couldn't work out how to find anything - how to search for stuff is beyond them.






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Search Engine # of Visitors # of Searches
Yahoo 35,372,000 3,537,200,000
Go.com 19,296,000 540,288,000
Excite 13,389,000 535,560,000
Lycos 13,997,000 195,958,000
Altavista 9.636,000 163,812,000
Snap.com 9,121,000 145,936,000
HotBot 9,341,000 93,410,000
LookSmart 8,035,000 88,385,000
GoTo.com 7,347,000 44,082,000
TOTALS 115,898,000 5,344,631,000

IN MIllions

Search Engine P # of Visitors   # of Searches Ratio s/v
Yahoo 1 35  3,537 100
Go.com   19  54028
Excite   13  53541
Lycos 3 13  19515
Altavista 2 9  16318
Snap.com   9  14516
HotBot   9  93 10
LookSmart

 

 8  8811
GoTo.com   7  446
TOTALS   115,   5,344 46

 

By looking at the ratios of searches per visitor we notice something remarkable.
Yahoo's visitors would appear to be making twice as many searches as visitors to the other search engines.

We must also note that yahoo is a directory rather than a search engine.

 

 

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