I’m just curious if google releases lists of most searched terms. Also, what are the most popular sites on the internet?
This page lists popular search terms on Google.
Zeitgeist, however, only shows month by month, right? I wasn’t clear in the fact that I’m wondering what the most searched terms of all time are, or at least year by year.
Alexa is a website that offers traffic details for any website. Here’s their page for straightdope.com. You can see the sites ranked by overall traffic , or by a specific category.
Wonder if they cut out porn terms, can’t believe “lesbian” isn’t always somewhere in the top ten.
That’s what I was thinking. There’s no way these sites are showing all the information if they don’t at least mention that there are a substantial amount of searches for porn.
I have my suspicions about this site’s accuracy.
Maybe that’s only to access the front page. The message board has a different address. But I know where you’re coming from.
In the Zeitgeist archives (sounds like some sort of pan-dimensional omni-database…), you can go to any year before the current one and view year-end summaries.
here you can see what is popular in different countries http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html . What is interesting that only in the US do celebrities totally dominate the searches. And that pokemon is still popular in Norway?
That’s not totally true. Japan and Korea are both utterly dominated by celeb searches (makes sense, since both are celebrity-obsessed in the real world as well). They kinda make the US look tame, actually
Now THAT’s scary.
If the main page is the US results, then it’s interesting to compare them to neighboring Canada, where such things as:
1. nhl
2. canada
3. air canada
4. lavalife
5. canadian tire
6. mls
7. westjet
8. love
… come out on top. Amusing to see the top two.
actually I may be wrong on the US searches as there doesnt seem to be a page that definitely states that these are the main searches from the USA (as opposed to subject areas). However, I suspect that as the main (world or US?) searches are dominated by minor american celebrities, then I am right.