1997 November: referers statistic searchengine top 100 hit parade

According to our observation, Infoseek had at last until January 1999 a several week persisting new page bonus. After submiting in August and September, the new page bonus expired

Total referers found in referer log files from all our own domains, and design and seminar customers hosted on our server. This only counts visitors coming from a link or a search engine. This does not count repeated visitors from bockmarks and visitors typing direct the URL (from newspaper or so)7767 2 visitors per pixel
1www.infoseek.com1345
2www.altavista.digital.com1114
3av.yahoo.com814
4altavista.digital.com472
5www.excite.com407
6www.search.hotbot.com393
7altavista.telia.com381
8av.yahoo.de220
9www.fireball.de207
10netfind.aol.com205
11guide-p.infoseek.com186
12www.lycos.com162
13search.yahoo.com135
14www.search.com128
15www.yahoo.com121
16www.metacrawler.com96
17newsgroups81
18www.lycos.de55
19other referers50
20webcrawler.com46
21www.webcrawler.com42
22crawler.de40
23www.energie.ch39
24netfind.aol.de35
25ie4.altavista.digital.com30
26alpha-consulting.com29
27www.uni-muenster.de28
28home.interstat.net27
29www2.infoseek.com24
30i-s-t.com23
31www.salzburger.at22
32www.paradigm4.com.au22
33www.euroseek.net21
34ourworld.compuserve.com20
35search.com19
36meta.rrzn.uni-hannover.de19
37guide.infoseek.com19
38www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au19
39search1.metacrawler.com19
40infind.inference.com18
41www.greenpeace.org17
42www.mckinley.com16
43lycospro.lycos.com16
44www.looksmart.com15
45av.yahoo.co.uk14
46server2.anzwers.ozemail.net14
47www.sear.ch13
48www-german.lycos.com13
49www.salzburg.at12
50search2.metacrawler.com12
51www.goo.ne.jp12
52www.warsitz-enterprises.com12
53www.cameronlaw.com11
54www.solarserver.de11
55www.altavista.telia.com11
56www.excite.de11
57www.usmo.com10
58www.surfpoint.com10
59www.slip.net10
60www.nlsearch.com10
61www3.infoseek.com9
62server1.anzwers.ozemail.net9
63www.wirehub.nl8
64search4.metacrawler.com8
65av.yahoo.se8
66ms1.dogpile.com7
67search3.metacrawler.com7
68ms2.dogpile.com7
69www2.dgsys.com7
70euroseek.net7
71query.webcrawler.com7
72www.gambling-hall.com7
73www.anzwers.com.au6
74www.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca6
75netguide.de6
76lycos.prodigy.net6
77bellsouth.yahoo.com6
78www.geocities.com6
79www.ostenfeld.dk6
80www.cyber411.com5
81www.expressdesign.com5
82www.et-info.com5
83s23.yahoo.com5
84www.netspace1.com5
85search.metafind.com5
86members.ping.at4
87www.sol.no4
88www.northernwebs.com4
89x1.dejanews.com4
90gem.crest.org4
91web.sol.no3
92www-uk.lycos.com3
93solstice.crest.org3
94home.snap.com3
95www.100hot.com3
96guide-p.infoseek.com:803
97berg.cs.colostate.edu:19693
98www.WebCrawler.com3
99www.searchcanada.ca3
100..........other 109 referers together174



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