Overture vs. Google

[Archbob]

Which one of these is searched more. Overture of google. I use overture suggestion tool to look up stats for certain keywords. So would be figured be more or less for google?

[aspen]

Either way you're dealing with a sample size in the millions so it should be statistically accurate.

Check out the important thread in the top of the subforum for links to search engine popularity charts.

[Winged Spider]

Are you asking which one gets the most traffic to their website? I wouldn't know although I'd have to say Overture.

Overture listings are hit a lot more than google ad words. That's a fact.

[aspen]

Actually, according to these two reports:

http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/perday.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/mediametrix.html

Google is searched much more often.

[M. Johansson]

According to the links aspen just posted, one could multiply the results given by the overture suggestion tool by 9 to get the correct amount of searches in google. Roughly. Very roughly.

[Winged Spider]

Thanks for the update. I thought google was searched more.

To be more precise in my last post I meant that overture listings are much more effective than google adwords.

[Archbob]

Does that report include the results overture provides to other SE's?

[M. Johansson]

Originally posted by Archbob
Does that report include the results overture provides to other SE's?

I don't think that would be possible without destroying the statistics, since Overture doesn't really provide "results", but rather just a few paid listings.

[aspen]

I think it does take partners into account, it does for the Google numbers, why wouldn't it for overture numbers. Of course these statistics are self reported as well.

[Archbob]

Does overture have an effect on MSN?

[Winged Spider]

Something sounds fishy...

Maybe Ill do some math and see what kind of numbers we get for certain keywords....

But then again that's math... :-)