What Do Britney Spears, Al Gore, and Harry Potter Have in Common?
Monday, December 3rd, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |
It’s a search marketer’s dream. The opportunity to post a news story with a title that includes the keyword "Britney Spears" in a legitimate way!
Thanks to Yahoo’s 2007 Top Trends in Search, we get to use Ms. Spears’ name and also "stuff" our post with a few other popular terms. OK, so we’re not actually hoping to rank for "Harry Potter" but, should Spears, Potter and Al Gore end up in some twisted love-triangle, we’re golden! 
In the meantime, you can waste half an hour perusing the keywords that your fellow man spent the better part of 2007 searching.
News Stories - top 10 news stories
1. Saddam Hussein
2. Iran
3. Iraq
4. President George W. Bush
5. Oil and Gas prices
Grass is Always Greener - top 10 environmental searches
1. Recycling
2. Global Warming
3. Freecycle
4. Earth
5. Pollution
6. Al Gore
Celebrity Downslides - top 10 troubled stars
1. Britney Spears
2. Paris Hilton
3. Anna Nicole Smith
4. Vanessa Anne Hudgens
5. Nicole Richie
The Year of I, You and Wii - top 10 in tech
1. YouTube
2. Wikipedia
3. Facebook
4. iTunes
5. iPod
Final Farewells - top 10 send-offs
1. Harry Potter
2. Anna Nicole Smith
3. The Sopranos
4. Rosie O’Donnell
5. Gilmore Girls
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December 3rd, 2007 at 11:40 am
Google also has a useful tool like that called Google Zeitgeist, but I like looking at Google Hot Trends and you can see in almost real time what everyone is searching for.
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Really, why do people keep typing in Britney Spears, what is it there to wonder about her? I would type that into search engines only if there is nothing left on earth to learn.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Clever headline there Andy, and minicix, i so agree with you; I also have zero interest in Britney Spears. In fact Spears and her dalliances (and pregnancies come to that) keep getting so much media attention that she is the last person i would want to find out more about.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Ups, you did it again
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