Here are some fun search engine and blogging statistics I pulled up.  I like doing this about once a year to see what is going on in the search space to see if there are any trends I’m missing.  Plus, it’s just really interesting data to look at.  Most comes from comscore, hitwise, and technorati.

enjoy…

Blogging Statistics

• 28% of all visits to blogs in 2007 resulted in some kind of action (email signup, contact form, etc.)
• There are currently about 15.5 million active blogs (blogs updated within 90 days)
• Total blogs tracked by technorati: 74 million
• There are 120,000 new blogs being created every day
• 3,000-7,000 new spam blogs (splogs) created per day
  
• Total blog posts created per day: 1.5 million
• 36% of those blog posts were written in English
  
• The Japanese language now boasts more blogs than another language (37%)

Search Engine Statistics

• 75% of Americans use search engines on a regular basis
• 56% of Americans use Search Engines every day
• 40% of all search engine searches are for local businesses and services
• 54% of Americans regularly use the internet instead of the phone book to find local services
• 92% of all local searches will eventually convert into a sale
• Roughly 10 billion search queries made per day
• Google’s share of search queries: 59.2%
• Yahoo’s share of search queries: 22.2%

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