My Impossible Mission

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3 total messages Started by flippit Sun, 29 Jul 2001 06:46

Author: flippit
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 06:46

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Objective:

    To find a top 100 list of most frequently
    searched subjects on the WWW.

Conditions:

    NOT keywords.  Keywords suck.  I am not
    interested in keywords.

Qualification:

    Simply the top SUBJECTS searched on the internet.
    A category based list.  For example:

    pornography
    religion
    computer programming
    etc.

Plea:

    Can anybody help?
    Does anybody know the answer?
    Is this the most objective way to assess
    the internet and NOBODY has done it yet?

Further details:

    I have tried searching for things like:
     +most +searched +subjects +internet
     What are the most searched topics on the internet?
     +"top 100" +"internet subjects"
     etc.
    With no success.

Please help!

Re: My Impossible Mission

Author: Andrew McLaren
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:26

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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

Re: My Impossible Mission : Help maybe

Author: centaero
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:38

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http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/keyword.htm

Don't know effective it is though but give it a try. AnalogX's stuff is
usually quite good stuff.
Cheerio

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