Comments on: Google: 25% Of Queries Are New & Adding Question Engine

By: henochsberg

henochsberg — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:38:23 +0000

In the Sunday,8/5/2007,Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten had a follow-up column to his original Googlenopes column. He mentions a new website, http://googlenope.com, which is a reader contest on these. It’s pretty clever; definitely worth checking out.

By: Randy woods

Randy woods — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:12:06 +0000

We’ve spent some time analyzing the AOL data release of late last year and have arrived at similar conclusions. These are described in a series of blog posts but in essence:
- The top 1% of search phrases = one-third of search volume
- The top 25% of search phrases = two-thirds of search volume
- The remaining 75% of search phrases are sought only once in the three month period for which data was released.

By: Dennis Ray Nestor Jr.

Dennis Ray Nestor Jr. — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:20:20 +0000

I have heard of many people using Google as a spellchecker. Could This be where they are coming from?

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:11:13 +0000

I coined the term "the invisible long tail" to explain the phenomenon in a Youmoz article a couple of weeks ago. There, I explain a technique I use to identify such terms. Identity followed up with a clever strategy to predict such terms through patterns.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:58:17 +0000

The 25% figure has been announced previously. It came out in Google’s 2006 press day for sure (Danny blogged about it on SEW) and it was mentioned in the Searchology Press Day this year. I think the other points were also raised by Udi at Searchology.

Matt, it seems like you’re confirming 6 billion queries a month at Google. If so, the various search engine ranking reports released by HitWise, Nielsen, and comScore are seriously underestimating Google’s activity.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:38:26 +0000

It’s definitely that high. The long tail is very, very long.

By: Erica Forrette

Erica Forrette — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:27:21 +0000

Heh… maybe that “queries that have never been seen before” number is gonna see a little uptick following that recent Googlenope story – I know I entered some garbage searches to try to trick The Google myself!

By: rustybrick

rustybrick — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:57:17 +0000

Interesting, I just didn’t think that number was so high.

By: mad4

mad4 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:47:54 +0000

I blogged about the 25% of new queries issue at http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/mahalo-human-powered-search/ If 25% are new then the database of previously searched for terms is growing by about 1.5 billion every single month - on reason human powered search can never keep up.