Search Trends - Search Engine Marketing

I figured the year-end Zeitgeist data wasn't necessarily just a list of the most popular searches for the year. This hunch was confirmed by this post on the Google blog that explains how they compile the data for that report. Basically, they look for keyword searches that were unique to 2006. It makes sense to highlight these poipular searches instead of just offering up the same list of "maps", "dictionary", "yellow pages", "games", etc. every single year. I'm hoping to find some time in the next few days to review all the various "top searches in 2006" lists from the different search engines to see if I can pull anything useful from them.

I may or may not have time for that due to the extra business of getting ready for a week-long vaction the second week of January.

Labels: 2006, google, search, zeitgeist