Comments on: Actual Top 10 Search Terms of 2006

By: Yahoo Attempting to Keep Google and MSN Users

Yahoo Attempting to Keep Google and MSN Users — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:05:59 +0000

[...] Caught this today when performing a search for other engines while on Yahoo. First time I’ve seen an engine attempt to keep their users from jumping to another engine, which is very common practice as indicated by my Actual Top 10 Search Terms of 2006 post. [...]

By: Suresh Chowhan

Suresh Chowhan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:13:56 +0000

realy good analysis. many posting on different websites tell the top search terms. but your this analysis is absolutely actual

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:13:57 +0000

Great research, Dustin. Wise counsel to “never overestimate the intelligence of people”. It never ceases to amaze me when I want to show somebody something on the Web and this happens:

ME: “Hey, go check out Digg.com. I want to show you something cool.”
USER: “How do you spell that?”
ME: “D-I-G-G… dot com.”
USER: “OK.” (goes to Google and searches for Digg.com)
ME: “What are you doing?”
USER: “I’m going to Digg.com.”
ME: “Why don’t you just type Digg.com in the address bar?”
USER: “You can do that?”

Silly as it sounds, I am NOT making this up. It’s a wonder some people can use the Web at all. Sobering for those of us who try to create usable websites…

By: SearchLvr

SearchLvr — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:14:53 +0000

I love it. No wonder they don’t share the data! One of our most popular search terms is for another search engine… not very good PR, is it?????

By: Jason R.

Jason R. — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:10:04 +0000

Great work Dustin. Very interesting. Hopefully next year they will provide unfiltered data as Danny S. suggests.