Popular Search Terms

When your looking for an idea for the next project or post its a good idea to look around at what others are searching for. Sometimes its just a fun an interseting way to fill in a few spare minutes (I should get out more :-) )

Most of the search engines provide an indication of popular search tems. The following pages provide popular search terms . They are listed in alphabetical order:

• Ask Jeeves
  Popular searches for the previous week.
• AOL
  Search rankings for the previous month
• Bloglines
  Not really a search but shows the most popular links updated daily
• Dogpile
  Updated in real time Dogpile provides a scrolling list of searches. There is a filtered (censored) and uncensored version.
• Google Zeitgeist
  The monthly search listings from the worlds favourite search engine
• Lycos Top 50
  Weekly update of the top 50 searches
• Metacrawler
  Provides a glimpse of current searches.
• MSN
  Provides a cut-down list of popular searches in the bottom left of the MSN home page.
• Technorati
  A great page showing popular searches, tags, blogs and videos.
• Yahoo!
  The Yahoo! Buzz Index provides a daily top 20 search list.