Britney Spears dropped the “People’s Elbow” on the WWE, clinching the top spot in Yahoo’s list of searches for the year.
Pirates, The Dark Side, Rule Halloween Searches
Expect the ghoulish staples this year: streets filled with ghosts, mummies, vampires, and werewolves. This Halloween also promises more contemporary characters as well, as trick-or-treaters reveal with their search behavior.
Most Popular Yahoo Halloween Searches
It is definitely the time of year where seasonal searches start to appear prominently in the various zeitgeists and other search popularity reports. There are 3 major holidays people need to prepare for, including Christmas, and that’s why these searches increase so much during this time of year. The first event on the calendar is […]
Google Searches For Stones In Belgium
Shortly after some impressive huff-and-puff grandstanding, Google decided it best to comply with a Belgian court order after all. The company initially refused an order to post a ruling against Google on its Belgian homepage and Google News site, and seemed to take the $640,000 daily fine on the chin.
Yahoo Searches For Mortgage Rates
As part of the revisions to their real estate site, Yahoo has added mortgage rate information to its search functions and returning those rates on the search results page.
RSS tops Blogging in searches for Online PR
RSS and content syndication are good online PR search terms.
Kosmix Searches Yield Oddities
Kosmix.com is a self-proclaimed “world class search engine that lets people search less, and discover more great stuff.” It attempts to return search results sorted into categories that the user can then inspect or ignore. But based on the results several test queries generated, Kosmix still has a few kinks to work out.
Google Searches Bard, Finds Yorick’s Skull
Google launched a new function in conjunction with its Book Search, one that celebrates, not relegates, a bard without besmirch. Shakespeare, in high school you were never easy, as we emulated with poems that to the ear and eye were cheesy. Like this one.
Job Searches Through MySpace
MySpace is, without question, the dominant social networking site on the Web. That could soon change, however.
MySpace Searches Down Under, Finds Google
While News Corp.-owned MySpace.com courts major search engines to expand its advertising offerings through search marketing, it is also looking to expand its Australian base to better target its 800,000 Aussie members.