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"flippit" <flippit@bigpond.com> wrote
> Objective:
>     To find a top 100 list of most frequently
>     searched subjects on the WWW.

Well ... what do you mean by "search"?  Search by search engine?

Assuming that's what you've got in mind (seems likley), you would need to
aggregate the searches of some or all of the internet search engines. Some
engines are general purpose, some are specialised. Let's assume you're
interested only in the general purpose ones. Then you'd have AltaVista,
Google, Lycos .... etc. You'd need to find if they are keeping some sort of
stats on the types of queries their users are making. Probably they do. Then
you would need to get these figures from all the search engine organisation,
or a representative sample, and munge them together in some way.

It would be an interesting academic exercise. But I suspect that the Search
engine sites keep hold of that info as closely guarded commercial
intelligence ... the searching game seems pretty competitive, and info like
that is worth money.

In any case, unless omeone has already done research along the lines I
outlined above, and published their results, I doubt you're going to get any
good info. How could someone provide the info you want without having done
such an exercise?

Cheers
Andrew