Average daily Google searches

[jimmorris]

Hey, everyone,

I'm addressing this specifically to Danny Sullivan since I
found his article on Searches Per Day located here:

http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156461

I need to pin down the estimated number of daily searches
currently done on Google.

But there tends to be numbers that are talked about today
(even after the Google IPO) that are even lower than the
numbers quoted in Danny's article back in February 2003.

Some authorities like the USA Today, MSNBC and Yahoo
and newspapers are quoting that 200 million searches
are done daily on Google.

How exactly has Google's share of daily searches dropped
from 250 million as Danny quoted in February 2003 article, to
now like 200 million? That just can't be. Here are a few samples
of URLs quoting only 200 million in 2004:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2004-02-04-google-cover_x.htm
(a year after Danny's article above)

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4570868\

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20041007/tc_afp/afplifestyle_germany
(most recent article)

It seems to me that if Google was clocking 250 million daily
searches back in February 2003, they should be somewhere
at least 300-350 million, especially since they went public.
And another factor that should make this higher is the
continuous growth of the Internet and the number of new
users coming online. My point is even more emphatic
if Danny got that number back in Feb. 2003 straight
from the horses mouth.

However, my endless search to find a more recent figure
has been fruitless.

Could anyone help me out (Danny would be favorable) and
shed some light on the real true current number of searches
logged by Google?

It would be greatly appreciated so I can compute a formula
that's very essentially.

I appreciate ANY feedback (or pointing me to a true authority)
that you devoted search engine guys and gals may have...

Best,

Jim Morris, Co-Founder
NicheBOT - Find what people search for.

[dannysullivan]

I need to update the page. I actually have a note in my working folder to change Google to 200 million global searches per day, a figure they gave out at SES New York in March of this year.

Why the drop? My guess is that when they lost the Yahoo partnership, they lost a chunk of search traffic there. That 200 million figure should be searches on Google itself or through its partners.

[WebDevil]

Hello everyone, I'm new to SEW and will most likely stay a member as I search for elusive answers.

So here is the question:

On the 16th of this month, after receiving substanial traffic from search engines (not PPC or inclution), I have seen my traffic fall off a cliff. For the last 3 days ( starting the 16th) traffic droped 60%, all at once, and has stayed there since. Today I'm seeing a very slight increase.

Q1) Has anyone else experienced anything like this, during the same time line?
Q2) If not during the same time line when and how did it play out?
Q3) If you have (Q1), then can you tell me what happened and how to fix it?

Sincerely,

James

[Dave Hawley]

How exactly has Google's share of daily searches dropped
from 250 million as Danny quoted in February 2003 article, to
now like 200 million?Might be that the SERP's are more relevant. So for example, instead of eveyone doing 2.5 searches to find what they want, it's down to 2.

Why the drop? My guess is that when they lost the Yahoo partnership, they lost a chunk of search traffic there. That 200 million figure should be searches on Google itself or through its partners. Are you certain searches on Yahoo were counted? I wouldn't have thought so. If they were, and the figure went from 250 million to 200 million, it would suggest Google it a LOT more popular than 1 year ago.