We don't search much as we already know the answers! *smile* Check out my blog on programming http://www.nirandas.com/blog/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saravanan Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: [AI] Indians lag behind Koreans, Japanese in Net search
> Indians lag behind Koreans, Japanese in Net search > > New Delhi (PTI): An Indian netizen is hitting the search button on an > average 51 times during a month, but this puts them only at the last > position among the top 10 countries of Asia-Pacific in terms of intensity > of > online search. According to the latest ranking of top Internet search > figures for Asia-Pacific released by Internet traffic tracking firm > comScore, Koreans have topped in terms of online search intensity with an > average of 102.8 searches per searcher during the month of July. > "Searchers > in Korea exhibited the heaviest search intensity with an average of 102.8 > searches per searcher during the month, followed by Australia (102 > searches > per searcher) and Japan (100.8 searches per searcher)," comScore said. > India > has ranked after Korea, Australia, Japan, Singapore (91.2), New Zealand > (87.2), Hong Kong (81), China (76.6), Taiwan (74.8) and Malaysia (64.2) on > search intensity ranking. India's score of 51 searches per searcher is > even > lower than the overall average of 80.7 for the Asia-Pacific region. > However, > the figures might increase after taking into account traffic from the > public > computers. The comScore data has been compiled by taking into account all > unique Internet users aged 15 and above from their home and work computers > and it excludes searches from public computers such as Internet cafes or > access from mobile phones or PDAs. However, India fares much better in > terms > of the number of people searching something on Internet as well as in > terms > of the number of such searches. While India has been ranked third after > China and Japan in terms of total number of unique searchers, it is the > fourth in terms of number of searches after China, Japan, Korea and Japan. > "China hosts more searchers than any other country in the Asia-Pacific > region, with 143.5 million searchers conducting 11 billion search queries > in > July. Japan ranks second in both metrics, with 61 million searchers > conducting nearly 6.2 billion searches," comScore said. In comparison, > India > had 23.4 million searchers conducting 1.2 billion searches during the > month. > The study has also found that Google sites continued to lead the region > with > 33.5 per cent of more than 27 billion searches conducted in July. > Baidu.com > ranked the second with 27.4 per cent search share, followed by Yahoo sites > in the third with 19.7 per cent share. "Although Google leads the > Asia-Pacific search market, powerhouse Chinese search engine Baidu.com > follows closely on its heels with only a 6-per cent difference separating > the two," comScore executive vice-president for the Asia-Pacific region > Will > Hodgman said. "It will be interesting to watch Google and Baidu compete > for > the top spot in the region and the loyalty of the growing Asian > population," > he added. Google, Baidu and Yahoo are followed by NHN Corp (4.6 per cent > market share), Alibaba.com (three per cent), TENCENT (1.9 per cent), > Microsoft sites (1.7 per cent), Lycos sites (1.5 per cent) and Sohu.com > (1.1 > per cent). Sci. & Tech. <http://www.thehindu.com/holnus/008hdline.htm> > > ***** > > Thanks and regards > > Saravanan. > > English teacher. > > Chennai. > > > > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > September 21 &22!! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm September 21 &22!! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
