Google, Yahoo, Ask and Lycos have released* their top search terms for the past year (2008) and I have aggregated it to your convenience in one happy table below.
I don’t have anything smart to say about it but I did manage to pull out five intriguing insights.
My Five Cents:
- As done last year, it seems like Y! have removed all the navigational queries from their report (I wonder why ;)
- “Poker” is the “Top Search Term Of The Year” for for the 3rd consecutive year on Lycos… (what is Lycos? :)
- Though she didn’t make it to the White House, US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin captured the zeitgeist of internet users in 2008 while Obama in the 6th place.
- IMHO, Ask.com is just being too honest in their report – 50% of Ask search terms are navigational queries and the rest are boring.
- Britney Spears has been the most popular search term at Yahoo for seven of the past eight years!
Top Search Terms | 2008
| # | Yahoo | Ask | Lycos | |
| 1 | sarah palin | Britney Spears | Dictionary | Poker |
| 2 | beijing 2008 | WWE | MySpace | Paris Hilton |
| 3 | facebook login | Barack Obama | YouTube | |
| 4 | tuenti | Miley Cyrus | YouTube | Golf |
| 5 | heath ledger | RuneScape | Sarah Palin | |
| 6 | obama | Jessica Alba | Coupons | Britney Spears |
| 7 | nasza klasa | Naruto | Cars | Clay Aiken |
| 8 | wer kennt wen | Lindsay Lohan | Craigslist | Pamela Anderson |
| 9 | euro 2008 | Angeline Jolie | Online degrees | |
| 10 | jonas brothers | American Idol | Credit score | Holly Madison |
Update (18 Dec. 2008): Top 10 search queries that people used on Delicious in 2008 are: news, blogs, reference, wiki, restaurants, hotels, css, web 2.0, artists, music… I think it is loud-and-clear that the biggest bookmarking site isn’t fulfilling its search potential (!)
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* Note: Microsot (Live) didn’t released the updated list until now and AOL didn’t break out overall terms so wasn’t included here.
4 responses so far ↓
1
Ofer Egozi
// Dec 15, 2008 at 2:33 am
What is Lycos? Well, Lycos is… dead
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Moti Karmona
// Dec 15, 2008 at 6:54 am
This is what happens when you play Poker all day… ;)
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Goran | Website Design
// Mar 27, 2009 at 10:22 am
Its Amazing that Britney Spears has been the top performer on Yahoo for so long.
Looking at Yahoo most of the results are actually names of people were Google has only 3 names.
How did you get access to this type of information.
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Moti Karmona
// Apr 2, 2009 at 9:04 pm
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/PRESS/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=351087
“Britney Spears has been the most popular search term and person for seven out of eight years”
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