Comments on: Comscore Search Report: India Searches Very Less.. Google Rules..

By: Rajiv Dingra

Rajiv Dingra — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:39:45 +0000

@raghav soni: Interesting stats raghav.. Thanks for your comment.. As always it added tremendous value to the post.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:32:29 +0000

Google is still the King in India

By: raghav soni

raghav soni — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:24:54 +0000

@kartik just got to who.is and alexa.com and search there you would get all traffic details there …….

By: Vibhushan

Vibhushan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:05:59 +0000

Check the filter applied for getting these numbers — “Total India – Age 15+, Home/Work Locations”.
Afaik, comScore excludes cyber cafe traffic. In India, it still remains a very substantial point-of-access for internet. It would be interesting to know the panel size and composition that comScore uses for coming up with these numbers. May be that will help clear the doubts around credibility of these numbers.

By: Kartik

Kartik — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:16:45 +0000

@Raghav - Superb statistics! Where did you get these from? It would be great if you could share the source.

By: raghav soni

raghav soni — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:47:18 +0000

wont agree with this report ……let me say first of all its not a dampner that india constitues only 2% of searches if we believe that for a second cos the online penetration itself is just 3-4% of online penetration across the world……so the onus is on less online users rather than less searching users…….
now second point is google.com domain ranks second in the world and on top of that india constitutes 8.5% of visitors on that domains second only to U.S.A despite the fact that most of the visitors are redirected to google.co.in(just try it type visit google.com and u would be redirected to google.co.in)……..THE GOOGLE.CO.IN DOMAIN RANKS AS 14 IN WHOIS RANKING……
google.cn(china) ranks 40 well known fact due to baidu……
google.ru(russia)ranks 72 again yandex case
google.com.br(brasil google most important market)has ranking of 23……….
the google.co.in has page per views of 8.5 20% higher than 7.1 global average
if calculated google.com visits itself give in excess of 1.2 billion page views+2-3 billion page views for google.co.in=3.2-4.2 billion page views on google.com itself which most of them is earch queries leave aside search on youtube blogger and others affiliated sites……as the report mentions all google sites rather than just google…..overall the comscore data itself underestimates the whole search market in india……
cant trust comscore data for sure cos they have 2 million members to get record from across the world and very less indian memebers..and they really cant predict indian market correctly due to less no. of analytic data available to them………
in the end what i can say that indian search queries market is much bigger than what comscore predicts…..and they do have a reputation of wrong prediction just like their feb mishap with google ad click data…….

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:12:37 +0000

wow.. what an enlightened nation we’ve already found what we’re looking for.. or know exactly where to find it
hmmm, is there data on niche search.. maybe wrong term, but say, things like burrp, for restaurants….. the reason I’m asking is because of FB’s presence up there.. it could be because of a sum of applications that cater to specific niches? like say movies? if it is, then isnt it making a great case for social media?
when’s twitter going to make it up there?