If you look at the top 15 or so countries in the world ranked by GDP,
what are the top 3 or so search engines in each country, and how have
their positions changed within the last year or so?  Ideally I'd like
to know which search engines have, by country, the largest share of
search queries, but I will settle for knowing which search engines
have the largest share of monthly unique users combined with minutes
of user per user.

I recognize that maybe it will be impossible to get data for some
countries. The more countries, the more search engines, the more time
periods, and the more documentation, the better.  I will pay more for
work that exceeds my expectations.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 29 Jul 2004 18:17 PDT

Please have a look at this site:


http://www.beingfound.com/statistic-2004/index.htm


and let me know if these type of data are useful to you at all.  It
details the search engines used most frequently to access a popular
company page that caters to German and Austrian businesses, so that
top German search engines (along with Google-Austria) appear on the
list in order of ranking.

They also show how site popularity changes over time, since they have
statistics like these going back several years.

Is this helpful, or are you looking for more formal market share studies?

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by mistercasey-ga on 29 Jul 2004 19:27 PDT

The sort of data provided by Being Found is helpful if it can be
corroborated by more formal data, but by itself isn't a sufficient
analysis of the market share of search engines in a country.  I'd love
to see more links like this one, but they should be a supplement to
more rigorous data.  Here's why:

The log files to a single site or a small set of sites DO give a good
representation of what % of traffic to that site came from which
search engine.  But, that may not be representative of what % of
search queries a search engine receives in a given country.

Imagine that Google gets 60% of queries in a country, and Yahoo gets
40%.  But if Yahoo ranks a site #1 in the results for a query term,
and if Google ranks it #10, and if users are 3X as likely to click on
a #1 link as a #10 link, the server logs of the destination site would
show Yahoo as generating twice as much traffic as Google (40% * 3
divided by 60% * 1).

See what I mean?