100000 Visits To Google Minus Google
Six weeks ago I read an article in the NYT about Google becoming a media company. I wanted to contribute to the discussion about Google emphasizing their own sites in search results. So I created Google minus Google, a search engine that uses Google to get the search results, but filters out all links to Google-owned sites.
The site has found quite an audience and yesterday Google minus Google reached 100000 visits, which is a whole lot more than I thought of when creating the service.
The visits come from around 80 thousand or so unique users and in total there has been more than 128 thousand searches. After all of the huge PR the service got (NYT, Lifehacker, CNET, the Register, Nu.nl and more than 300 blogs), the daily number of visitors has declined, but the usage per user has been increasing all the way.
It’s not a surprise that many people who enter the site for the first time have tried it if the service really works, therefore most of the top searches relate to Google. In total there have been 55 000 different queries. It’s interesting that a huge portion of those are names, which could mean that people are really interested only in themselves.
20 most popular queries on Google minus Google
| 3652 | |
| youtube | 3182 |
| test | 1140 |
| knol | 615 |
| lol | 325 |
| gmail | 231 |
| porn | 211 |
| you tube | 164 |
| orkut | 163 |
| riemurasia | 155 |
| video | 126 |
| sex | 124 |
| diet coke and mentos | 120 |
| blogger | 119 |
| novophone | 106 |
| miseta.net | 91 |
| nu | 87 |
| “armeense genocide” | 86 |
| maps | 83 |
| asd | 80 |
Please try Google minus Google, if you haven’t tried it before.
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