Now THIS is a surprise

Google spokesman:

“Politico gets more traffic from The Drudge Report than from Google,” Kovecevich said at a luncheon in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, adding that the company’s search engines field more than one billion searches per day.

Who could have guessed that a gossipy and oft-wrong or misinformed political website might get more traffic from the ‘Net’s worst political gossip site than from the ‘Net’s most widely-used search engine?

There are some good pie charts which show how much traffic Google drives to other popular sites at the link.