Anyone who doesn’t know that Google’s dominance of the internet search business is growing must be living in Elbonia. But what about in the history business?
A quick check of the logs at CHNM reveals just how dominating Google’s position is and how it continues to expand. I looked at which search engines were bringing traffic to our site and found that for the main URL (chnm.gmu.edu) the data are:
November
Google – 55.7%
Yahoo – 14.5%
December
Google – 57%
Yahoo – 13.9%
January
Google – 62.1%
Yahoo – 13.7%
February (through 2/26)
Google – 65%
Yahoo – 11.3%
Similarly, for one of our most popular sites — History Matters — the numbers are:
November
Google – 72.8%
Yahoo – 10.1%
February
Google – 74.5%
Yahoo – 8.6%
So, if you were a history website developer, which search engine would you be putting your efforts into getting it to index your pages?