On: DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine"

[vaksel]

how many people would go to Google and search for a term "new search engine"?

I'd figure a person would use the term search or search engine, and for those duckduckgo is not even in the top 10 pages

[axod → vaksel]

"new search engine": Approx search volume January=18,100. Approx search volume average=22,200

(From google adwords tools).

For comparison, "people search" gets 68,000,000 January, and average of 30,400,000

[fallentimes → axod]

Sort of off topic, but is the adwords tool the best one to use to find search volume?

[Jasber → fallentimes]

WordTracker has a great free too: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Also SEOBook has a decent tool: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

But yes, AdWords tools is among the best to find search volume. No one else has the data to offer the same information.

[epi0Bauqu → fallentimes]

If you have a point of reference, I find Google trends useful as well. By point of reference, I mean you have some keywords where you know the actual click volume from personal experience, i.e. you rank 1st on that keyword.

[fallentimes → epi0Bauqu]

Yeah I've used Google Trends and Insights a lot, just wanted to see what everyone else out there is using.

[axod → fallentimes]

Seems to give logical numbers from what I've seen, How accurate they are I don't know, but they seem to be in the right sort of ball park.

[fallentimes → axod]

Thank you. I've been using them, Google Trends & Insights and Exact Report (for rankings).

[jyothi → fallentimes]

I personally think adwords tool is the best freely available tool right now. Spyfu and wordtracker are other options - paid. More expensive Hitwise reports, can't beat these in terms of depth and accuracy.

You should also check out google's new Search Insight at http://google.com/insights/search

[epi0Bauqu → vaksel]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=new+search+engine%2C+hacker+n...

You have to start somewhere...

[epi0Bauqu → epi0Bauqu]

Just to be clear, I went for this key phrase, e.g. look at the homepage title.

I thought "new search engine" was a) in immediate reach; b) efforts for it could help with "search engine"; and c) people actually searching for "new search engine" are probably good candidates for using Duck Duck Go.

Now I suppose it's time to move on to higher volume stuff...