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What People Search For - Most Popular Keywords

Millions of searches are conducted each day on popular search engines by people all around the world. What are they looking for? A number of major search engines provide a way to glimpse into the web’s query stream to discover the most popular search keywords or topics. These are:

* Google Trends: Allows you to tap into Google’s database of searches, to determine what’s popular. View the volume of queries over time, by city, regions, languages and so on. Compare multiple terms, as well.
http://google.com/trends

* Google Zeitgeist: What people are searching for at Google and its associated specialty services in a variety of categories. There are versions for various countries, as well.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

* Yahoo Buzz Index: Shows you what’s hot and what’s not in terms of search topics at Yahoo.
http://buzz.yahoo.com/

* MSN Search Insider: Top 200 queries on MSN Search (annoyingly in random order), top “movers” in TV, sports and music, and a “duels” feature pitting top queries in a race against each other.
http://www.imagine-msn.com/insider/

* AOL Hot Searches: Top current queries, or see those in the last hour, last day and within particular categories.
http://hotsearches.aol.com/search/hotsearch.jsp

* Lycos 50: Long-standing service showing top searches at Lycos each week.
http://50.lycos.com/

* Ask IQ: See top searches at Ask.
http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml

* Dogpile SearchSpy: Choose to see either a filtered or non-filtered sample of top, real-time search terms from this popular meta search service. Sister site MetaCrawler offers a similar MetaCrawler MetaSpy service.
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/
http://www.metaspy.com/

 




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