Popularity of Google services.
Search Engine Watch has a percentage breakdown of recent traffic on various Google subdomains. The data are from the week of October 29 to November 5.
- Google Web Search: 79.9 percent
- Google Image Search: 9.2 percent
- Google Mail/Gmail: 5.6 percent
- Google News: 1.6 percent
- Google Maps: 0.8 percent
- Froogle: 0.7 percent
- Google Scholar: 0.6 percent
- Google Groups/Groups 2 Beta: 0.5 percent
- Google Print: 0.4 percent
- Google Earth: 0.3 percent
- Google Directory: 0.2 percent
- Google Local: 0.1 percent
- Google Answers: 0.1 percent
- Google AdWords: 0.06 percent
- Google Desktop Search: 0.04 percent
- Google Talk: 0.02 percent
(Links added.)
I’m disappointed that Google Talk doesn’t seem to be catching on; I admit I was hoping for a serious AIM/Yahoo/MSN challenger. Also, as SEW noted, Google Print places surprisingly high on the list — perhaps it’s the controversy with the publishers that’s giving it more attention (and traffic).