Top Searches On Bing In 2015: Caitlyn Jenner, Tom Brady & Paris
Microsoft released this year's top Bing searches for celebrities, athletes, news stories and a number of other categories.
Topic: Miley Cyrus
Yahoo 2014 Search Trends: Ebola Ranks No. 1 For Top 10 Searches & Most Searched News Stories
Following Ask.com last week and Bing on Monday, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to share its most popular searches for the year. Mayer’s site released its top searches for a number of categories, including most popular searches overall, top obsessions, and news stories, as well as offering up a few Tumblr lists. Ebola ranked No. 1 […]
Bing’s Top Searches In 2014: Kim Kardashian No. 1 Most Searched Celebrity
If you were searching for a celebrity on Bing this year, there’s a good chance you were looking for Kim Kardashian. Using data from Bing Trends, the site released its most popular searches of 2014, listing everything from top celebrity, athlete and news story searches to the Top Ten ice bucket challenges, and vacation destination […]
Nelson Mandela Ranks #1 On Google’s Top Trending Searches For 2013
Google has published its top ten global trending searches of 2013, with the recently deceased South African leader Nelson Mandela ranking No. 1 for this year’s top global searches: It’s perhaps unsurprising that the #1 trending search of 2013 was an international symbol of strength and peace: Nelson Mandela. Global search interest in the former […]
Yahoo’s Year In Review Includes Top Searches For 2013 & First Ever Posting Of Top Tumblr Trends
Yahoo has assembled an impressive list of search trends for 2013, covering 38 different “Top Searched” lists on everything from top searches overall to top searched cookies (yes, the ones you eat). For the first time ever, Yahoo included top trends on Tumblr in its year in review, highlighting the most viral blogs on Tumblr, […]
Bing Posts Its Most Popular Searches For 2013, Naming Beyonce The Most Searched Person Of The Year
Bing has released its most popular searches for 2013, including more than 20 “Most Searched” lists, from most searched persons, sports stars and teams, to most searched TV shows and movies, social sites, entertainment electronics and apps. Beyonce topped two lists, winning the No. 1 spot for most searched person of 2013 and most searched […]
Ask.com Posts Most Popular Questions Of 2013 Without Waiting To See What Gets Asked In Dec.
It’s not even Thanksgiving week, but Ask.com has posted its Most Popular Questions and Search Terms for the year, listing 2013’s top ten trending terms for news, celebrity and entertainment, and political searches. According to the site, the Royal Baby ranked No. 1 for the top searched news term of the year, with the corresponding […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 7, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Image Extensions: Early Reactions & In-The-Wild Examples The PPC world is abuzz over the news that Google opened its beta for image extensions, which allow AdWords advertisers to include images […]
Search In Pics: Miley Ray Cyrus At Twitter, Google Giant Koosh Ball & NYC Glass Fitting Area
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
12 Top Search Trends To Kick Off 12/12/12 Google Zeitgeist
Don’t worry, Google’s year in review for 2012 isn’t that predictable for the once in a lifetime calendar event. On the official Google 2012 Zeitgeist website, you’ll find their biggest list ever published, with a total of 838 lists from 55 countries, covering 1.2 trillion searches done worldwide. Digging in deeper, Google has divided the massive […]
Yahoo! 2012: The Top TV, Movie, Songs & Singer Searches
Screen related searches are the backbone of Yahoo!’s year in review lists, as actors, actresses, talk show personalities and reality TV celebrities seem to command a bigger presence year after year. In the most popular TV searches on Yahoo! in the US, perennial favorite American Idol dominated top slots in several categories of Yahoo’s top search trends for […]
The Big Ask Of 2012: Do You Search For Team Kstew Or Rpatz?
Ask.com’s 100 million users remain almost as loyal as Twihards, prompting us to ask if searchers are on Team Jeeves or Team Diller when putting in their queries. For the 2012 installment of the series in hot searches, Ask added a new twist to the searcher saga, layering in a thicker plot and seeking a […]
Bing On The Top Search Trends For 2012: Kardashian, Bieber & Gangnam Style
Oh baby, baby, baby oh… Sorry Biebs, you better believe you just got Kanye’d off the top searched celeb spot by Kim Kardashian. Ouch. But if you were her boyfriend… oh never mind. Let’s get on to the good stuff that Bing announced earlier this evening, the big list of 2012 Bing Trends. Bing’s biggest list […]
Bieber Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular Searches In 2011
First out of the gate this year in the annual rush to declare search winners is Bing, who earlier today unveiled the top searches of 2011 at BingTrends.com. Bing.com also created an original video to recap the year in search, ending the clip with the Twitter hashtag #My2011. Video: Bing Originals: Decisions That Shaped 2011 […]
Google Releases Zeitgeist 2010: Justin Bieber To Chatroulette & iPad To Haiti
Google has announced their Zeitgeist, the popular and fastest rising queries from 2010. Google published it over here and for the first time has included an “interactive HTML5 data visualizations” to page in order for you to see how hot a particular query was across the globe. Here is a look at the Top Global […]
Yahoo’s Year In Review 2010 Of Top Searches: My, How Much You’ve Grown
Sound the vuvuzelas! In what surely will take top honors for the list(s) to end all lists this year, Yahoo! has unveiled its annual Year in Review for 2010, featuring at least 25 categories of Top 10 most searched for topics. This year’s special searches cover everything from the usual celebrities and gossip headlines, to […]
YouTube Topic Search Offers Way To “Explore” Related Videos
Around 6pm tomorrowPacific Time, YouTube will be making YouTube Topic Search available through its TestTube “labs” area. The new feature allows people to easily explore videos by topic. I got a demo of this about three weeks ago, and it’s pretty cool. For example, you can search for videos and then narrow them down into […]
Brittany Murphy’s Death & Google’s Real Time Search Results
The death of actress Brittany Murphy is probably the first test for Google’s new real time search results. Earlier this year, when Michael Jackson died, it took several minutes for the news to make it into Google despite the extraordinary number of searches it was getting. The integration of real time results was designed in […]
AOL’s List Of Lists – Top Searches 2009
AOL has weighed in with a heavy hitting list of 2009’s top searches in the categories below. AOL’s top searched celebrities for 2009 michael jackson robert pattinson rihanna farrah fawcett kim kardashian megan fox jon and kate miley cyrus patrick swayze natasha richardson Oh, Edward. Patrick Swayze should roadhouse you from heaven. It surprising that […]
Ask: The Most Burning Questions Of 2009
In true Ask fashion, we’ve got the answers (well…not complete answers) to what the most popular questions were on Ask.com during the year. According to Ask.com, visitors are three times more likely to type search queries in the form of a question. Holding steady at 50 million visits per month (October 2009, ComScore), question based […]
Caution: Searching For Jessica Biel May Be Dangerous To Your Computer’s Health
Danger, thy name is Jessica Biel! No, we’re not turning Search Engine Land into a celebrity gossip blog … we’re talking about the risks of searching online for certain celebrities. And, according to a McAfee report issued today, Jessica Biel is the most dangerous celebrity on the web, passing last year’s master of search disaster, […]
Google Zeitgeist 2008 Live; Lycos Announces Top Searches of 2008
As a followup to the aggregate list of 2008’s Top Search Terms from the major search engines, Google has officially released its 2008 Zeitgeist, or “spirit of the times” list, covering the most popular searches of the year. This year’s data includes a global look at the most popular search terms, gathering top 10 lists […]
Ask.com: Top Search Trends of 2008
"Maverick" earns bragging rights as the word of the year; Disney's Tweeny-boppers take over the Top 10 list of celebrity-based searches; shopping for the best deals on travel and entertainment were top of mind in a tightening economy, and queries in the form of a question still reign supreme at Ask.com.