How do others think when they search?
Sometimes you get top-20 lists of what the most popular search queries are, usually dominated by Britney Spears and other pop-culture junk. But is there any way to enter a requested search query, not to search for websites but to see how popular that search term has been on Google or Yahoo or elsewhere?
Like for example if I'm curious to know which is more popular search term "forum" or "message board", I could see which terms are more popular in people's thinking rather than which is more popular on the web. Or as another really stupid example: "dog pirates"; I could see how many people were previously interested in searching for that term, if any at all. (yo ho ho)
Am I just dreaming of a magical way to get into other people's search thought processes? Or does something like that actually exist?
Dragon of Ice posted this at 15:27 — 29th July 2004.
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I think you're looking for googlefight.com
fifeclub posted this at 15:41 — 29th July 2004.
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I do like googlefight for fun but that measures how many pages contain those terms. I'm looking for how many times those terms were actually searched for (whether successful or not).
As another example, lets say that a big company introduces a new product with a ridiculous made up name, that everybody wants. Lets say the name of this new miracle product is "Microcrapzilla". If you searched for this term the moment the product was announced you would end up with zero results because that term doesn't exist anywhere on the internet (until I just posted it here). BUT within hours you may have millions of people who searched for "Microcrapzilla". Even after a few days hundreds of websites sprout up selling "Microcrapzilla", I'd still be interested in knowing how many times that word has been searched for... which would give me an indication of the public demand for information on it.
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