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What are all the million lusers out there searching for? Watch it: there is not much to learn here, I am afraid, if not that humanity has still a long way to go... "porn movies" and "sex videos" being a real hit... sex rules, and warez and mp3 are close behind... note that idiots misspell many searchqueries, often enough, with the ususal phonetic misspelling patterns. As an example, the recent "top query" for "nostradamus" presented following variants:
1. Nostradomus 2. Nostrodamus 3. Nostradamas 4. Nostradamos 5. Nostradomas 6. Nastradamus 7. Nostradamous 8. Notradamus 9. Nostradomis 10. Nostradamis 11. Nostredamus 12. Nostadamus 13. Nostrodamas 14. Nostra Damus 15. Nostrdamus 16. Nostradumus 17. Nostrodomis 18. Nostrodamos 19. Nostradameus 20. Nostradmus
You may wonder why searchers should be interested in the "what people are searching for" kind of lore. Well, not only in order to find the Qxapoiu kind of stuff :-)
Mainly for a couple of more or less useful reasons:
1. in order to understand that 99% of the zombies use JUST ONE (and simple, and often enough misspelled) queryword. Of course search engines portals take advantage of that... you may take steps in the same direction... try the following link, that will bring you to yahoo's main portal, and you'll understand what I mean: the search field is drowned among irrelevant noise (the contrary of google and the very reason google triumphed). The point, as always in advertisement, is to deliver to the user SOMETHING HE DOES NOT NEED AT ALL.
2. in order to learn HOW TO SEARCH IN OTHER LANGUAGES, for instance using 'the regional voyeurs, below, you may learn some useful international 'target-related' search terminology :-)
3. to keep some sort of contact with the advertisement-compelled wishes (and phantoms) of this barbie-world around us... where we too have -unfortunately- to live and work :-)
4. A (rather sad) caveat: During the last two years many among the facilities and tools listed below, tools that allowed anyone to check EXACTLY what other people where searching for have been killed or silenced by the commercial idiots that own the search engines.
The reason is either utter incompetence (it's the case of the Yahoo owners of alltheweb/fast) or, also, that there's at times a lot to learn from a well constructed query. And the very reason these search engines all exist is NOT, of course, to allow you to search the web, it is to know WHAT YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR. Huge databases of people searches are thus compiled, grepped and commercially exploited by and for the search engines owners and the (relatively rare) "jewels" (particularly effective querystrings) are to be used internally, and not to be given to the masses for free.
So you will seldom be able to find, or automatically grep, queries like the following one, extracting them from the search engines themselves, in real time:
+("ftp://" OR "http://") +("*.zip" OR "*.exe" OR "*.rar") -link group:*crack* OR group:*fido7* OR group:*2600*
This is just a simple example of the power of "OR" in google, but as you may easily imagine, countless other examples await, or rather 'would have awaited' the patient seeker's bots.
The ironical aspect is that anyone with a little money (or a little skill) can still fetch this kind of info through his own servers and providers (or somebody else's), intercepting and grepping the packets to -say- google... so the only people "shut off" from these tidbits of knowledge are normal, everyday internet users.