Search Engines Top: Keywords Trendspotting

What brings you here? Top search keywords.

Millions of keywords are conducted each day on top search engines by people all around the world. What are they looking for? A number of major search engines provide a way to glimpse into the web's query stream to discover the most popular search keywords or topics.

Knowing which terms appear most frequently in engine searches can help you use the right words and terms in your site. But remember: while it makes sense to use these keywords in your site if they pertain to you, littering your site with irrelevant words can backfire. Here are:

Major Search Engines Keywords

• Google Zeitgeist - Regularly updated terms, trends, and surprises according to people around the world search Google. There are versions for various countries, as well.
• Yahoo! Buzz Index - weekly hot keywords collected from Yahoo! search log files
• MSN Search Insider - The TOP 200 searches on MSN, updated weekly, top "movers" in Music, TV and Sport and search duels pitting topics against one another.
• AOL Hot Searches - Search topics gaining popularity on AOL in real time (updated every 12 seconds!), last hour or last day. You can browse a range of topics or select topics from a single channel, such as Health.
• Ask Jeeves Interesting Queries - top search terms asked on Ask Jeeves weekly.
• Lycos 50 - Each monday Lycos lists the people, places and things which are most on the public mind as reflected by Lycos user searches over the past week.
• Wordtracker's Todays Top Keywords - Daily updated top 30 search terms for various metacrawlers for the past 24 hours. And weekly updated free of cherge list of top 500 frequently searched words (by e-mail subscription).

Minor, Pay Per Click, Meta Search Engines and Counters

• Digile SearchSpy - Realtime web searches on Dogpile. Choose unfiltered or family-friendly searches.
• Ixquick's metasearch lists of TOP 100, TOP 1,000 and TOP 10,000 most popular search words.
• Recent What's Hot in Eurekster.
• MetaSpy - Current 10 MetaCrawler's searches, refreshed every 15 second. Filtered and unfiltered versions available.
• The Galaxy StarGazer - Voyeur Search - returns random keywords searched within Galaxy.com in real time. By default search terms are filtered out, but you may also turn the filter off.
• Splat! Search Spy - random search queries from the last several minutes.
• Infotiger Search Voyeur - randomly selected keywords that other users are searching for. Both filtered and unfiltered streams available.
• OzSearch top 15 searches (Australian search engine).

If you are looking into doing some revenew with Google AdSense or similar pay-per-click advertising models, or are already actively involved, you might take a look at these list of the top paying keywords to improve your earnings.

International Top Search Terms

• Scandinavian
• Scandinavian keyword research - free TOP 250 Danish and Swedish keywords. Filtered to be family friendly.
• German
• DINO Live Searches - 30/60/90 live keywords refreshed every 10/20/30/60 second (configured) from DINO-Online queries stream.
• Russian
• Yandex Live - latest life 20 queries from leading Russian Search Engine.
• Spylog Global Statistics - complete list of keywords, ordered by popularity for selected time period. SpyLog is advanced real-time outsourced web analytics service and keywords data collected from clients website logs analysis.
• LiveInternet Search Engines Queries - keywords that drive traffic from search engines to sites with LiveInternet counter. Comprehensive searchable data ordered by keyword popularity.
• HotLog What Hot in RUnet Today - top 100 queries in Yandex and Rambler compared respectively.

References

1. What People Search For - Most Popular Keywords Danny Sullivan (Editor) article on SearchEngineWatch.
2. dWoz Directory Search Phrase Lists.
3. Live Searches: What others are searching for. - Fjalar Ravia article with lot of live searches links, especially international.