WebAdvantage が行った調査。
本日は私自身が忙しい上、丁寧に解説するのが面倒なので適当に日本語にしています
(英語わかる方は原文確認して下さい)
Q) ビジネスユーザーが検索に使うサーチエンジンはどれ?
Google: 66.37%
Yahoo: 15.25%
MSN: 7.8%
AOL/Netscape: 4.16%
Lycos: 0.55%
AltaVista: 1.55%
FastSearch: 0.35%
Excite: 0.70%
Hotbot: 0.30%
iWon: 1.21%
# やっぱり Google 人気
Q) ペイドリスティングをクリックする割合はどれくらい?
0-20%: 303 (64%)
21-40%: 101 (21%)
41-60%: 57 (12%)
61-80%: 10 (2%)
81-100%: 5 (1%)
# みなさんクリックしないんですねー
Q) 検索結果には有料(PPC)と無料(オーガニック)あるのはご存じ?
Yes: 229 (51%)
No: 221 (49%)
# ビジネスユーザーだと半々なんですね。日本だと No の方が多いんでしょうね
Q) 検索結果1ページ目で欲しい情報みつからなかったらどうする?
Quit after 1st Page: 37 (8%)
Continue on to 2nd Page: 125 (28%)
Continue on to 3rd Page: 125 (28%)
Continue on past the 4th page until I find what I'm looking for: 164 (36%)
# とりあえず4ページ目まで見るんですね。私は10ページ目くらい見ます
結論(webadvantage より)
Conclusions:49% of the business community does not recognize a paid search engine listing.
85% of the audience thinks they click on sponsored links less than 40% of all their searches.
In most cases members of the business community rely on organic search results, not using paid search listings.
Paid listings do not always yield the most relevant results - 78% of all respondents feel that they find the information that they are looking for less than 40% of the time through sponsored links.
66.37% of the business community uses Google for their search engine of choice.
92% of business community searchers continue on past the first pages of search results and search ads
でした。
Results from WebAdvantage.net's "Business Users Search Engine Survey" [web.advantage]
Business Users Prefer Organic Search Results to Paid Listings