The Business Blog at Intuitive.com

Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. He's a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera and Linux Journal and frequently appears in other publications both online and in print. Additionally, Dave maintains four weblogs: The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, Ask Dave Taylor, Dave On Film, and GoFahterhood. Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs, as well as active member of his community and busy single father to three children.

Wonder what people search for online?

You should be able to guess when you think about what obsesses our culture, but according to Wordtracker, here's the list of the twenty most common search terms in the last 60 days on the major search engines. (A few I've lightly censored):

Nos       Count         Keyword
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1         265099        sex
2         188506        porn
3         175159        paris hilton
4         135572        p*ssy
5         129597        google
6         128705        ebay
7         110885        yahoo
8         100634        jokes
9         100403        health
10        91614         t*ts
11        89792         b**bs
12        85774         hentai
13        85388         free porn
14        83837         milf
15        75032         paris hilton video
16        74723         nude
17        73954         games
18        67431         yahoo.com
19        66188         dictionary
20        65205         mapquest

What's most interesting to me is that search engines are such popular search terms on search engines. What's that all about, d'ya think?

Posted by Dave Taylor at March 30, 2004 11:11 PM

Comments

my own experience has been that people are treating their address bar like a search bar instead of just entering the address for the search engine.
"How do I find 'www.yahoo.com'???, I know, I'll type it into google's search engine and then click on the link that it gives me.."

Posted by: Jay Griffin on April 3, 2004 11:57 AM

It would be interesting to see just how many people from yahoo search for google and vice versa (be search engine specific)...

It would also be funny if you searched for yahoo on google, and then result number one was www.google.com =-)..

Theres a lot of h*rny people out there.

Posted by: JB on April 18, 2004 12:32 AM

i read alot the expressuion MILF's what do they mean it has something to do with sex i think? thank You tere must be many not in porn industry like me that do not know this expression?

thank you Alois

Posted by: alois on August 17, 2008 2:46 PM

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