Possible to see a ranking of the most searched terms on Google? Most popular sites?

Factual Questions
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I’m just curious if google releases lists of most searched terms. Also, what are the most popular sites on the internet?

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[QUOTE=gitfiddle]
I’m just curious if google releases lists of most searched terms. Also, what are the most popular sites on the internet?
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This page lists popular search terms on Google.

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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.

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Swarm

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[QUOTE=gitfiddle]
Also, what are the most popular sites on the internet?
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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.

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[QUOTE=drewbert]
This page lists popular search terms on Google.
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Wonder if they cut out porn terms, can’t believe “lesbian” isn’t always somewhere in the top ten.

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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.

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[QUOTE=anson2995]
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.
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I have my suspicions about this site’s accuracy.

:wink:

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[QUOTE=KarlGauss]
I have my suspicions about this site’s accuracy. :wink:
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Maybe that’s only to access the front page. The message board has a different address. But I know where you’re coming from. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=gitfiddle]
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.
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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.

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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?

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[QUOTE=scm1001]
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.
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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 :slight_smile:

Now THAT’s scary.

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[QUOTE=scm1001]
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?
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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.

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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.