• Use the native search engine of this website to go to the pages relevant to the key phrases or keywords that referred you to here. There are links at the end of this page, too.
• See also the main pages at saliu.com and their stats. The pages show their web titles for a clear representation of the content. It's very efficient and useful in searching. It shows at a glance the variety of topics and the pages dealing with the respective tasks.
• This web site does not pay any search engine to rank its pages higher in Internet searches.
This site hosts a huge volume of information. Take your time to search and read much as you can. It's worth your while.
• Read this author's opinion on the best indexing by the super search engine.
Generated July 31, 2003 (3 WE).
• An interesting event occurred in June 2004. Google referring percentage declined to 52.6% (from 61.2% in September 2003). Meanwhille Yahoo climbed to 24.6% (from 17.1 % in September 2003), and MSN rose to 12.6% (from 8.3 % in September 2003)! Yahoo uses now the Inktomi search engine. MSN also employs a new search technology. Who knows what the future will bring.
• An interesting event occurred in June 2004. Google referring percentage declined to 52.6% (from 61.2% in September 2003). Meanwhille Yahoo climbed to 24.6% (from 17.1 % in September 2003), and MSN rose to 12.6% (from 8.3 % in September 2003)! Yahoo uses now the Inktomi search engine. MSN also employs a new search technology. Who knows what the future will bring.
• See also the full key search sentences that directed visitors to this web site in the month of January 2004 & April 2004.
• Then, interesting again: October June 2004. Google referring percentage JUMPED dramatically to 65%! Meanwhile, Yahoo and MSN declined dramatically! Google referred over 35,000 visitors in October 2004, while overall total visitors referred to by all search engines was almost 54,000. Overall, Yahoo Inktomi crawled (spidered) many more pages at my web site than Google Googlebot did. Google, however, is much faster in updating its search index. Curiously, Ask Jeeves spidered, by far, the largest number of pages at my website!
See the best stats ever at saliu.com: Search engines referrals, countries, keywords: October 2004.
•••• This web site changed host in January 2005. Incredibly, there was a huge surge in search engine referrals. The referrals were monitored for a 30-day period in January 2005 and February 2005. The list breaks down the search engines by country, region, domain, etc. WWW.Google.com alone recorded over 120,000 referrals; www.google.ca had 16,181 referrals; beta.search.msn.com registered 1,999 referrals, while search.msn.com had 15,387 referrals, etc. Total referrals by all search engines: a whopping 283,378. That surprised me, too!
See a most comprehensive list of the search engines that referred visitors to saliu.com in January-February 2005. The list is broken down into countries, regions, domains, etc.
Links from an Internet Search Engine
32 different referring search engines
Pages Hits
Google 9995 10273
Yahoo 3316 3325
MSN 1458 1469 1
AOL 659 659
Other search
engines 536 546
Ask Jeeves 401 401
AltaVista 230 258
Netscape 149 149
Excite 80 80
AllTheWeb 55 55
Overture 43 43
Lycos 38 38
Ask Jeeves UK 37 37
Hotbot 33 33
MetaCrawler
(Metamoteur) 30 30
Search.com 28 28
Teoma 21 21
Go.com 20 20
WebCrawler 19 19
Mamma 18 18
InfoSpace 17 17
Looksmart 12 12
DMOZ 7 7
Virgilio 4 4
Go2Net
(Metamoteur) 4 4
WISENut 2 2
Freeserve 2 2
Sohu 2 5
Seznam.cz 1 1
Meta Miner 1 1
T-Online 1 1
Abacho 1 1
Reasons why Google has such a commanding lead:
1) Free inclusion, therefore unbiased searching and unbiased results;
2) Very fast indexing, and frequent indexing of a web site;
3) Relevant and timely results.
Not to mention that the second search engine, Yahoo, uses Google for web search! It means that most users are dissatisfied with the web directory search offered by Yahoo. The directories have two drawbacks: subjectivity and dated material. It is impossible in the fast-paced Internet of today to refresh directory listings with what's new and worthy.
AOL, too, uses Google sometimes (Search enhanced by Google!)
I don't imply that Google is perfect. It has a ways to go insofar as the QUALITY, not only the static relevancy, of the web sites is considered. That's hard even for humans. Still, the search engines can do, and probably will do, a better job at figuring the quality of the material. The page title weighs too heavily in the ranking. A better logical correlation between concepts must be established. For example, lexicographic and lexicographical are treated as totally different concepts. Logically, such concepts should be treated as being the same logical entity. Thus, logical grouping of concepts (keywords) should be an urgent priority.
As of the paid-for search engines: They are doomed to become a footnote to Internet history.
This classification of the search engines is consistent. I tracked the referring search engines for the full month of September 2003. The number of referrers to my web site increased by 40%. The order of the search engines remained virtually the same. I am sure that the stats of most web sites show the same structure of the referring search engines.
Generated September 30, 2003 (3 WE)
Links from an Internet Search Engine
33 different referring search engines
Pages Percent Hits Percent
Google 14295 61.2 % 14432 61.2 %
Yahoo 4011 17.1 % 4042 17.1 %
MSN 1964 8.4 % 1965 8.3 % 1
AOL 800 3.4 % 800 3.3 %
Other search engines 687 2.9 % 690 2.9 %
Ask Jeeves 508 2.1 % 508 2.1 %
AltaVista 271 1.1 % 291 1.2 %
Netscape 201 0.8 % 201 0.8 %
AllTheWeb 72 0.3 % 72 0.3 %
Ask Jeeves UK 68 0.2 % 71 0.3 %
Lycos 65 0.2 % 111 0.4 %
Overture 62 0.2 % 62 0.2 %
Excite 62 0.2 % 62 0.2 %
MetaCrawler
(Metamoteur) 45 0.1 % 45 0.1 %
Mamma 42 0.1 % 42 0.1 %
InfoSpace 32 0.1 % 32 0.1 %
Hotbot 29 0.1 % 29 0.1 %
Search.com 21 0 % 21 0 %
WebCrawler 20 0 % 20 0 %
Teoma 20 0 % 20 0 %
Looksmart 12 0 % 12 0 %
Go.com 11 0 % 11 0 %
WISENut 5 0 % 5 0 %
Virgilio 5 0 % 5 0 %
DMOZ 4 0 % 4 0 %
Origo-Vizsla 2 0 % 2 0 %
Seznam.cz 2 0 % 2 0 %
Fireball 2 0 % 2 0 %
Google (Images) 1 0 % 2 0 %
Kvasir 1 0 % 1 0 %
Web.de 1 0 % 1 0 %
Go2Net (Metamoteur) 1 0 % 1 0 %
Meta Miner 1 0 % 1 0 %
Things at this web site improved further in March of 2004. Google referred over 700 visitors a day. Overall, the search engines referred around 1200 visitors a day. For the most part, the search engine referrers are new visitors.
Things even improved further in April of 2004! Google referred over 800 visitors a day. Overall, the search engines referred over 1400 visitors a day (over 43,124 visitors for the month). For the most part, the search engine referrers are new visitors - probably 90%+ of them all (visitors, that is, that it is).
There was a moment of decline, however. It happened during the so-called Florida Update performed by the Google search engine in November of 2003. Many experts believed Google did the update in an attempt to force the hand of the advertisers. That is, if a link was highly ranked, then it should be pushed down in the result list. A high rank reflects a strong interest of the owner in that particular field. Therefore the owner of the link would be willing to pay for advertising. If Google rationalized that way, they came back to earth shortly. They realized how they became so successful: Unbiased indexing and ranking. Unbiased is the keyword here, as it were.
I believe that the future of search engines will be short lived. Just about anybody can write capable indexing software. I don't mean that every Internet user will be able to write his/her own search engine software. But at least every major Internet provider will be able to write very good search engine software, even better than Google. It is not hard at all. The additional cost in hardware will translate to 10-20 extra computers for storing the text databases. That's not an extraordinary expense, with the prices of powerful computers going down by the month.
Generated January 31, 2004
Links from an external page
(other web sites except search engines): 5465
Links from an Internet Search Engine: 30929
37 different referring search engines
Pages Percent Hits Percent
Google 18134 59.6 % 18423 59.5 %
Yahoo 4755 15.6 % 4883 15.7 %
MSN 3523 11.5 % 3529 11.4 %
Other search engines 1080 3.5 % 1086 3.5 %
AOL 785 2.5 % 785 2.5 %
Ask Jeeves 590 1.9 % 593 1.9 %
AltaVista 304 0.9 % 353 1.1 %
Netscape 236 0.7 % 236 0.7 %
Dogpile 191 0.6 % 191 0.6 %
Overture 130 0.4 % 130 0.4 %
AllTheWeb 107 0.3 % 107 0.3 %
Excite 91 0.2 % 91 0.2 %
Earth Link 83 0.2 % 83 0.2 %
Hotbot 65 0.2 % 65 0.2 %
Ask Jeeves UK 59 0.1 % 59 0.1 %
WebCrawler 44 0.1 % 44 0.1 %
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 42 0.1 % 42 0.1 %
Mamma 36 0.1 % 36 0.1 %
InfoSpace 23 0 % 23 0 %
ix quick 22 0 % 22 0 %
Search.com 21 0 % 21 0 %
Lycos 20 0 % 47 0.1 %
Looksmart 17 0 % 17 0 %
Teoma 14 0 % 14 0 %
Virgilio 13 0 % 13 0 %
Go.com 8 0 % 8 0 %
Go2Net (Metamoteur) 8 0 % 8 0 %
WISENut 6 0 % 6 0 %
DMOZ 3 0 % 3 0 %
Sympatico 2 0 % 2 0 %
Kvasir 2 0 % 2 0 %
Jubii 2 0 % 2 0 %
Origo-Vizsla 1 0 % 1 0 %
Bluewin 1 0 % 1 0 %
Szukaj 1 0 % 1 0 %
search1-[12].free.fr 1 0 % 1 0 %
Club-internet 1 0 % 1 0 %
• Generated Avril 30, 2004
Links from an external page
(other web sites except search engines): 8023
Links from an Internet Search Engine: 43124
44 different referring search engines
Hits Percent
Google 25270 58.5 %
Yahoo 8357 19.3 %
MSN 4888 11.3 %
AOL 1020 2.3 %
Unknown search engines 743 1.7 %
AltaVista 769 1.7 %
Ask Jeeves 534 1.2 %
Netscape 304 0.7 %
Dogpile 200 0.4 %
Overture 129 0.2 %
Excite 153 0.3 %
Earth Link 103 0.2 %
AllTheWeb 83 0.1 %
Mamma 75 0.1 %
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 68 0.1 %
Hotbot 67 0.1 %
WebCrawler 65 0.1 %
Search.com 57 0.1 %
Ask Jeeves UK 38 0 %
Lycos 47 0.1 %
InfoSpace 26 0 %
ix quick 16 0 %
Teoma 15 0 %
Virgilio 12 0 %
Looksmart 12 0 %
Alexa 11 0 %
Go2Net (Metamoteur) 12 0 %
Szukaj 8 0 %
Tiscali 7 0 %
WISENut 6 0 %
DMOZ 4 0 %
meta 4 0 %
Origo-Vizsla 3 0 %
Free.fr 3 0 %
i-une.com 2 0 %
Sympatico 2 0 %
Google (Images) 2 0 %
metacrawler.de 2 0 %
Kvasir 2 0 %
Web.de 1 0 %
Spray 1 0 %
Go.com 1 0 %
Meta Miner 1 0 %
search.bluewin.ch 1 0%
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Ion Saliu
Doctor in Occult Science of Searching (OssD)