# Search engine traffic share and level to Discourse

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**Created:** [8. Januar 2014 um 06:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-traffic-share-and-level-to-discourse/11822 "2014-01-08T06:54:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [8. Januar 2014 um 07:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-traffic-share-and-level-to-discourse/11822/2 "2014-01-08T07:21:25Z")

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It will be a lot lower in general, as most forums are primarily social in nature and not laser focused on “turn a practical problem you face into an answerable question, and vote the best answer to the top” ala Stack Exchange.

If SE produced, say, 80% useful search results out of all the pages generated, the average forum (Discourse or not) would produce maybe 10%. And that is probably a generous accounting. Of course this depends heavily on the forum subject and its policies, etc, but on average.

Think of it this way, how many Google searches do you do that result in forum results _today?_ The answer for me is about once a week, maybe a few times a week depending on the searches. Discourse would have to become huge indeed to move the needle on that.

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