# How many searches for a given word?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-searches-for-a-given-word/784265 "2017-04-11T20:42:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-searches-for-a-given-word/784265/1 "2017-04-11T20:42:17Z")

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Is their anyway to find out how many searches are done on any particular word?

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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-searches-for-a-given-word/784265/2 "2017-04-11T21:39:57Z")

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I found a web site that does this.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-searches-for-a-given-word/784265/3 "2017-04-12T00:09:07Z")

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Care to share? Enquiring minds and all that.

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**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-searches-for-a-given-word/784265/4 "2017-04-12T00:14:17Z")

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So, you’re curious about how many people search for midget porn.too? 😉

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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-searches-for-a-given-word/784265/5 "2017-04-12T01:04:33Z")

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> [@obbn](#):
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> So, you’re curious about how many people search for midget porn.too? 😉

No not especially, why do you ask?

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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-searches-for-a-given-word/784265/6 "2017-04-12T01:07:11Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Care to share? Enquiring minds and all that.

Just type in " key word search count" a lot of sites pop up. The ones I saw require that you have a web site but they are free.