Popular Search Tools

Google Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises

Weekly list of the top 15 gaining search queries from Google.

Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires Google's human and computing power together. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the millions of searches conducted on Google over a given period of time - weekly, monthly, and annually. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google's hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist report.

We should note that in compiling the Zeitgeist, no individual searcher's information is available or accessible to us. What you see here is a cumulative snapshot of interesting queries people are asking – some over time, some within country domains, and some on Google.com – that perhaps reveal a bit of the human condition. We appreciate the contribution all Google users make to these fascinating bits of information.

Link: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

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AOL Hot Searches

Daily top 20 searches conducted on the AOL websearch engine. Also more detailed search terms and phrases for major categories such as music, games and movies.

Link: http://hotsearches.aol.com/search/hotsearch.jsp

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Dogpile Search Spy Tool

Realtime search phrases being inputted into DogPile's search engine. You can choose from Filtered or Unfiltered real-time searches on the front page. Once you have selected that, you can see what people are searching for on DogPile immediately! Avery cool and interesting tool.

Link: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/

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Lycos Weekly Top 50 Search Terms

Funny how "Mother's Day" is #1 search term on Lycos in late May! View the top 50 search terms submitted via the classic Lycos search engine.

Link: http://50.lycos.com/

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MSN Search Insider

A flash webpage providing an insight into the terms being searched for via the MSN search engine. Features Dual search terms with a comparison of popularity between each pair. Also the Top 200 searches, but only 10 random phrases are shown at one time. You can also see the top 10 search term movers in television, sport and music.

Link: http://www.imagine-msn.com/insider/

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SearchKing

Top 25 keywords generated from independent portals.

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Yahoo! Buzz Index

Rank of the 8 leading search terms (or subjects) calculated by "buzz scores". Also the top phrase movers overall and by individual categories such as actors, movies and video games.

Link: http://buzz.yahoo.com/