Ask Jeeves Grows Market Share by 77%

[rustybrick]

Good year for Ask, according to a clickZ Search Volumes Rise as Market Matures, "Ask Jeeves emerged as the highest-gaining search engine in the period." Jeeves experienced "a 77 percent growth in market share to reach 2.6 percent."

Go Ask!

[andrewgoodman]

Private data from YOUR server logs may show otherwise, though. I'm in contact with a referral measurement service along the lines of Hitwise (not as big by a longshot, but representative IMHO), and across the board the number is below 1%. Not only that, but you'd find few sites at all above 1%. My own site shows Ask Jeeves referring 1.2% of all search traffic. I suppose you could factor in a number of other IAC properties and reach the 2.x% number, but counting just Ask and Teoma... I'm afraid it's more realistic to say 1.5% to 2.0% as the real share.

Anyone else?