According to cnet.com, Google hit a record with 1 BILLION visitors in one month.
Cnet.com, citing stats from Comscore, says that Google got over 1 billion visitors in May 2011, “the first time ever that a site has drawn that many visitors in one month”
“The number of unique visitors to Google’s sites rose by 8.4 percent from 931 million a year ago to just over a billion 1,009,699,000 to be more exact.”
“According to comscore, Google saw its greatest numbers in India and South Africa, which accounted for 14.3% and 13.5% of its visitors, respectively”
“Microsoft was number 2 spot with 905 million visitors in May up 15% from a year earlier, according to ComScore. ”
“Facebook took third place with 714 million visitors, up 30%
that’s about one dollar of profits per visitor
“says that Google got over 1 billion visitors in May 2011, “the first time ever that a site has drawn that many visitors in one month”
The Royal Wedding on the 29 of April might have bumped up the number of searches in early May perhaps ?
People like Fairytale weddings.
….or it could have been people interested in all the riots breaking out here there and everywhere 😉
gotta be their logos 🙂
After observing corporate client browsing/searching habits this week, I wonder how many of those billion were pure type ins intended for the site and instead the user intention was hijacked to expose them to competitors and alternatives they may otherwise never have considered. In one case the first result that appeared was a quote from an angry customer on a review site.
If I call 411 and ask for Mike Berkens, they give me Mike Berkens. And that’s the way Google should work too.
I am puzzled by ICANN what they do and why a group of domainers goes to their meetings and what they hope to achieve. But I would think that it might first be looking to protect the interests of those numbers already assigned then focussing on revenue stream opportunities by figuring out how to make more numbers to assign.
What Google does should be illegal. If businesses had a clue about how much business this was costing them- there’d be war. I know type-in domains lose at least 20% of their traffic because they are not listed at all.
Just venting…
TL;DR.
Google is “stealing” direct nav traffic because people type cars.com into the Google search box instead of directly into the browser bar. The behavior of such people is Google’s fault.
Which Microsoft site, Bing? They sure don’t have 90% of the search numbers, do they?
blame it on the browsers. browser developers can manipulate users into doing anything. they can even “override” domain names if they want to. that’s why google has made their own browser.
firefox sends type-ins to google. great deal for google and double digit millions for “non-profit” mozilla foundation (well-paid developers, users get nothing).
if users move to a google os it will be game over for type-ins. it’s all search, no address bar.
then there is apple’s apps. another tactic to keep people from using an address bar. why stop there? let’s keep them away from a browser. ridiculous.
and the lovely redirection services of the isp’s, services like barefruit and companies like opendns. everyone wants a piece of the type-in action.
“where do you want to go today?”
“that’s great. but look at these ads first.”
the whole system is a chaotic mess. there are far too many “switchboards”, all under private control. from the isp’s to the search engines and the seo nonsense to the servers that return ip numbers.
there is no single “411” anymore. the responsibility for accuracy of the simple contact information has been redelegated millions of times over. that’s the brilliant idea behind dns.
there’s nothing that requires all the sources to be accurate or even in sync. in a situation like that, getting a copy of the phonebook makes a lot more sense than dialing 411 hundreds of time a week.
two machines on the same internetwork can have the same number if the exchange points in between cooperate. so does a number mean a single machine in a particular place (e.g. geoip, or a “unique” ip)? how can we know for sure?
and how many of those billion hits were seo people getting serps from various geolocations? or some other bots? does that matter?
comscore’s attention grabbing headlines are a joke. their data is about as valuable as the data from the alexa toolbar, or less.
It’s like a million cars passed over the ay Bridge today but they were not going to the bay bridge.
This headline is like USA Today leaving papers outside 10 million hotel doors and saying they have the largest readership.