Friday, 27 July 2012

Top Google Searches in 2012: The Most Popular Keywords

we studied for the second time, the “Most Popular Keywords” searched on the Internet.  We gathered from as many sources as we could to a base of phrases and added even more than we had from the original attempt at finding the top searches online.


However, there is another number to consider when evaluating what people are searching on the Internet and in that second attempt in 2010, we concluded the volume of each of the terms should be considered.  This year as well, we are giving that much more weight.  So, we’ll summarize below the top categories within the top 100.  After having close to 18 months to think about the 3rd attempt at this study, we believe we’ve been able to create an even better list here for the Top Google Searches in 2012.  Also, we’ll explain our methodology on how we drew up the list at the bottom, but for your immediate edification, here’s the list of the top 100 MOST searched phrases online:

The #1 through #25 Most Searched Words on Google:

No 1 through No 25 Top Google Keywords
This year’s top 25 Keywords were made up of many of the 2010′s top 25.  However, the major differences to this top quartile were:
  • the volume significantly grew with many of the phrases; For example, our top phrase “facebook” almost doubled in volume from 1.68 billion a month exact searches a month to over 3 billion searches a month
  • we had several new phrases that are newer ways of searching for the top topics like facebook.  ”fb” became a familiar way of searching for the top social media website and ranked #7 with approximately 185 million monthly searches for the easy acronym.
  • and probably the most apparent change this year that we found to enter the list was the discovery of trending “new websites” that might become new social media powerhouses like Facebook did in 2010.  In particular, our #21 ranked phrase “tuenti” is a new social media that’s come out of nowhere based on the European continent.

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