Here is a copy of what I received in a newsletter:
The top 200 long-term keyword report
Our current database contains 368,159,632 search terms
and represents the complete queries from the largest
metacrawlers on the web (Metacrawler/Dogpile etc.) for the
last 60 days (2 months).
Nos. Count Keyword
1 141514 google
2 130414 ebay
3 120520 yahoo
Come on! People who use search engines to find links to search engines instead of typing up the name directly?
Do you know people who do this? I still cannot believe it.
Even if these keywords were part of a multiple-word query, Google and Yahoo are still in the top 3, even before Paris Hilton.
What asshat does a search for google? Are you sure that these just aren’t searches and that is what engine they are using? I know people are dumb but f**k, that’s re-dick-alous.
I’ll keep it at the top 20, you see it looks like a rather realist list of search terms. FYI, I have heard from a couple of very different sources that people really do these stupid requests. There’s no smoke without fire. OK, here we go. Look at #8 and #13:
The top 200 long-term keyword report
Our current database contains 368,159,632 search terms
and represents the complete queries from the largest
metacrawlers on the web (Metacrawler/Dogpile etc.) for the
last 60 days (2 months).
Nos. Count Keyword
1 141514 google
2 130414 ebay
3 120520 yahoo
4 101694 paris hilton
5 99866 health
6 97178 jokes
7 75322 mapquest
8 73855 yahoo.com
9 71273 games
10 68648 thong
11 68098 dictionary
12 66686 britney spears
13 58652 search engines
14 57734 pamela anderson
15 57446 hotmail
16 57300 anime
17 56755 april fools
18 53925 lyrics
19 49937 carmen electra
20 49898 maps