Traffic Flow SEO

I would like to put forth a new valuation method to better understand how much a company may value it's search engine. I feel that we can use a search engine's blog as an indicator as to how a company may value it's search engine. I had my own preconceived notions as to what the outcome would be and they were dead on, so maybe monitoring blog activity can tell you a lot. Check out the data below:

Major Search Engines:

Google Blog:
- Last post 3/8/10
- 61 posts for 2010 to date

Bing Search Blog
- Last post 3/5/10
- 35 posts for 2010 to date

Yahoo Search Blog
- Last post 3/5/10
- 18 posts for 2010 to date

Ask.com Blog
- Last post 11/9/09
- 0 posts for 2010 to date

Kind of revealing huh?

I think most of us in the search space noticed the Google Superbowl Ad (even though it had been running for 3 months prior). I have to say I liked it and found it clever, but the parodies that came after were probably some of the funniest YouTube videos I have ever seen. Check them all out below:

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Scour, one of my favorite and most progressive meta search engines is adding local. I cannot tell for sure, but it looks like an enhanced combination of Google Maps and Citysearch data (I like it better than the Citysearch and MapQuest combined information on Citysearch's website).

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Below is a list created with data from Website Shadow. Please note that all data is based on global Internet users usage of the website and since some of these search engines are also portals, that some of the popularity may not be search only and may reflect how these website ranks.

Google - 42.27% (USA)
Yahoo - 27.19% (USA)
Baidu - 8.51% (China)
QQ - 5.59% (China)
Yahoo - 4.95% (Japan)
Bing - 3.79% (USA)
Google - 3.55% (Germany)
Google - 2.89% (France)
Yandex - 2.40% (Russia)
Google - 2.08% (Italy)
Google - 1.96% (Spain)
Ask - 1.95% (USA)
Google - 1.33% (Canda)
Google - 1.16% (Russia)
Google - 0.85% (Poland)
MyWebSearch - 0.83% (USA)
Sogou - 0.77% (China)

Google's domination was pretty obvious, but what stands out most to me is this.....MyWebSearch has almost 1% of the global Internet users using it? All I can say is wow...:-)

While I am a HUGE fan of Pingler I have to say I am really impressed by blogbuzzer and where your blog actually gets pinged. The list is pretty unique and shows the real value of this service. A premium membership is available for only $9 per year (yeah I said per year) and it includes a monitoring service to tell when you blog has been updated and automatically pings it for you in addition to adding your blog to other services like Delicious, Stumble Upon, Blogopedia, BlogHub, Google, Yahoo and Bing to name a few....

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