Dec
2007
We are on the edge of an ending year now. Few more days and we shall bid goodbye 2007 with a happy note. It is time when everyone takes a little time out and looks back on what was accomplished and what was not. Days after days, weeks after weeks, and months after months, it is the time to make lists. You will observe that almost everyone is busy making lists, lists of successes, lists of failures, lists of accomplishments, lists of tasks that could not be completed, lists of progresses made, and lists of all that we can think of.
In business world also, this is the time to check and judge various aspects and make lists. Holiday season is on the cards now. It is time that companies are looking for easy publicity. Journalists are waiting eagerly for the announcements of lists. It is basically time to announce lists and let the world know of what happened during all those previous months.
Realm of the internet is no different either. Search companies are also companies making businesses after all. It is time for the search engine experts to know how search was performed during the whole year. What people wanted this year most, how they performed their searches on the internet, what companies offered to the customers, which companies survived with most business volumes and numerous such questions will be answered this fortnight.
‘Search on the internet’ is on the agenda for this week. Search companies will be putting out their lists containing numerous data and analyses. But the most wanted information would be “the top searches of the year 2007”. Microsoft however, will not be bringing out its list of top searches at this time for reasons unknown.
Top Searches at Google
Google, the most popular search platform announced its “2007 End of Year Zeitgeist” on December4, 2007. This ‘Zeitgeist of the year 2007’ included the most popular and the fastest-rising global search terms that people searched on “Google.com”. Google went deep in to the ocean of searches, search queries, and various other related aspects in order to capture what people preferred this year. Google has made its hilarious efforts public now and is available at “http://www.google.com/zeitgeist”.
Google’s lists of ‘Top Ten Searches (Global)’ include (1) iphone;(2) badoo;(3) facebook;(4) dailymotion;(5) webkinz;(6) youtube;(7) ebuddy;(8) second life;(9) hi5;(10) club penguin. Top Ten Fastest Rising Search Terms in the United Sates are (1) iphone;(2 )webkinz;(3) tmz;(4) transformers;(5) youtube;(6) club penguin;(7) MySpace;(8) heroes;(9) facebook;(10) anna nicole smith.
The Fastest Falling (US) Search Terms’ indicate another interesting trend. There are many more specific search lists that Google has classified for ‘Ringtones’, Music, Movies, and few others. You may have a look at these lists.
Marissa Mayer, the Vice President of Google’s search products and user experience noted,”There’s a huge surge in interest in social networking. Three of the top 10 rising terms were for popular social networks (four, if you count YouTube)”. Social networking sites also showed up in lists of top search terms published by other search companies.
Top searches at Yahoo
Yahoo is another most popular search platform and its search lists of the year indicate varying and interesting trends. The search results analyses here are on different levels in comparison to Google. Instead of the ‘Rising’ and ‘Falling’ trend, Yahoo adopted ‘Categories’ as its basis for search listings.
“Yahoo’s Top Ten Tech Terms” are (1) YouTube; (2) Wikipedia; (3) Facebook; (4) iTunes; (5) iPod; (6) iPhone; (7) Nintendo Wii; (8) Xbox; (9) Sony PlayStation 3; and )10) Guitar Hero.
Similarly, “Top Ten News Search Terms on Yahoo” are (1)Saddam Hussein ;(2) Iran ;(3) Iraq ;(4) President George W. Bush;(5) Oil and Gas Prices;(6) Barrack Obama;(7) Hillary Rodham Clinton;(8) San Diego Fires;(9) Afghanistan;(10) Virginia Tech .
There are several other categories for “Top Ten Searches on Yahoo” including ‘Top Ten Environmental Searches’, ‘Top Ten Troubled Stars’, ‘Top Ten on Yahoo Kids’, Top Ten on Del.ici.ous’, ‘Top Ten Send Offs’, ‘Top Ten Sports News’,’Top Ten Consumer-Call-Backs’, You can see all those top searches of the year 2007 at “http://buzz.yahoo.com/toptrends2007/”.
Top Searches at Ask.com
Big searches on another extremely popular search engine “Ask.com” demonstrates a different set of people’s preferences during the year 2007. ‘MySpace’ was the biggest one of all here. Surprisingly, ‘Bebo’, ‘Orkut’, and ‘Facebook’ find no place in this top ten lists. The list includes terms,(1) MySpace;(2) Dictionary;(3) Google;(4) Themes;(5) Area Codes;(6) Cars;(7) Weather;(8) Games;(9) Song Lyrics;(10) Movies.
Ask.com’s ‘Top Ten Television Searches of 2007’ highlight names as (1) Hannah Montana;(2) Family Guy;(3) SpongeBob Square Pants;(4) WWE ;(5) American Idol ;(6) Big Brother ;(7) Gilmore Girls ;(8) South Park ;(9) Charmed ;(10) Grey’s Anatomy.
The ‘Top Ten Searches of Sports Teams’ places’ Boston Red Sox’ on the top of it. On a separate aspect, ‘Jenifer Lopez’ was at the first place in the list of ‘Top Ten Celebrity Search of Pregnant Stars of 2007’. ‘Barack Obama’ and ‘Hilary Clinton’ stood at first and second ranks in the ‘Top Ten Search List of Presidential Candidates of 2007’ at Ask.com.It is also very interesting to note that the ‘Democrats’ searched more on the internet in comparison to the ‘Republicans’. ‘Fred Thompson’ was the only top Republican who was searched more and the reason is perhaps that “he is the most “video-genic” of all the candidates”, says Ask.com.The ‘Omni-favorite’ Disney television channel series was the top in the Ask.com top television series searches.
Learning Lessons for Bright Future
The ‘search-trends’ of the year 2007 have a different direction to that of the last year’s search preferences. New concepts are evolving and many more new popularity clads would be landing on the surface of the internet in the coming year also. The list certainly will not remain the same when we shall be counting one more year.
Common people, website owners, and the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts, all will find these announcements of the top searches lists of popular search engines very useful for their future preferences and plannings.Many of us who are going to enter in to the world of the internet and are thinking to establish websites of their choices and preferences would find these search preferences as the guiding lines.
We would certainly be witnessing upcoming of many more websites based on the search results and people’s preferences in the coming year of 2008.It is therefore the best time to learn our lessons for a bright future.
