Comments on: Search Engine Usage in Ireland – The Facts & Figures, Statistical Analysis March 2007

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:29:19 +0000

Hi Ciara

Thanks for dropping by my tiny piece of the web. I cant offer you any more I’m afraid. I know a couple of SEO’s that ran some stats on this for other countries (if memory porves me correct then UK was far higher than I thought it would be – ~40-50% ‘pages from UK’).

Nothing in concrete unfortunately. There is a way to mine this from Google Analytics, but it’s quite advanced to set this up.

Sorry I cant help more,
Rgds
Richard

By: Ciara

Ciara — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:14:13 +0000

Hi Richard, Great site, 1st time visitor!
http://www.redcardinal.ie was recommended to be on the Google forum after I raised this question;

“I was wondering if anyone knew of a resource where one could find out how many people search from the regional pages .i.e. “pages from Ireland” over “the web” in Google”

Would you have any idea or resources on this topic?
Thanks in advance
Ciara

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:07:44 +0000

No idea Frank. I have seen some stats for the UK, but cant remember off the top of my head. If I can find them I’ll let you know.

Rgds
Richard

By: frankp

frankp — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:48:29 +0000

Thanks for this Richard.

On the subject of which search engine, I’d have also been interested to know, of the users who search using Google in Ireland, what percentage use Google.ie vs Google.com.

By: Thomas Holmes

Thomas Holmes — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:30:01 +0000

It is kinda shocking they didn’t ask that. But they did get some good data anyway. Google’s figures are sure to be incredible! Not much real competition from Yahoo or MSN.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:57:56 +0000

Hi Thomas

The only shame was that they forgot to ask which search engine people used. Someone in the audience asked Gerard O’Neill about this and he was very hoenst and replied that it was one of those ‘why didn’t we ask that’ moments.

But someone from Google made reference to the figures from the UK and Spain being ~80% and ~96% respectively, and that Ireland was more likely to be closer to Spain. Sort reinforces my own belief that Google executes around 90% of Irish search queries.

Rgds
Richard

By: Thomas Holmes

Thomas Holmes — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:41:53 +0000

Great info Richard!