posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:17 PM
by
demiliani
Search Engine usage in Italy
Google the best also in Italy!
This is the result from the last research from Audiweb Nielsen//Netratings that says that Google is the most used search engine in Italy. The result is resumed as follow:
| Visitors (single IP) x000 |
Google (.it + .com) | 9,585 |
Virgilio.it | 8,024 |
Libero.it | 7,766 |
However, this is not the completely correct result... Accordingly to an accurate examination by I-Dome, if you consider the sum of the 2 domains .IT and .COM, the winner is MSN:
| Visitors (single IP) x000 |
Google (.it + .com) | 9,585 |
Virgilio.it | 8,024 |
Libero.it | 7,766 |
MSN (.it + .com) | 10,082 |
Now, these last results must be submited to an other consideration: MSN traffic comes a lot from the "autosearch" pages from Internet Explorer (when you type an incorrect URL for example, you're redirect to these pages).
If you take in consideration only the number of page view, Google is the absolute winner and the result are these:
| Page View x 000 |
| April | March | +/- % |
Virgilio.it | 512.922 | 631.287 | -18,75 |
Libero.it | 623.229 | 652.555 | -4,49 |
Google.it | 767.255 | 758.455 | 1,16 |
MSN (.it+.com) | 270.416 | 326.299 | -17,13 |
You can see that there are lots of point of view... ;)