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perspectives
This page offers perspectives on popular online search
terms.
It covers -
It
supplements the discussion of search engines
(and search engine optimisation),
search behaviour and
internet metrics.
offline perspectives
Elsewhere on this site there is a detailed discussion
of offline and online 'coloured pages' and other classified
advertising directories.
A perspective is offered by rankings in offline directories
such as the US yellow pages, where the highest of 300
top rankings in 2004 (PDF)
went to -
Rank
and heading
1 Restaurants
2 Physicians & Surgeons
3 Auto Parts
4 Auto Repairs
5 Pizza
6 Lawyers
7 Auto Dealers
8 Dentists
9 Hospitals
10 Beauty Salons
11 Plumbers
12 Insurance
13 Department Stores
14 Banks
15 Veterinarians
16 Theatres
17 Florists
18 Tyre Dealers
19 Pharmacies
20 Hardware
21 Schools
22 Churches
23 Lumber
24 Carpet Cleaners
25 Airlines |
Est
usage (m)
1,322
1,143
555
492
388
368
295
264
262
254
250
233
221
170
169
159
146
127
115
112
110
108
103
102
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what is popular in Wikipedia
Another perspective is offered by WikiCharts, identifying
the "top 100" items in the English-language
Wikipedia.
As with any ephemeral music or video chart individual
positions vary over time. An initial ranking in mid-August
2006 was -
1
Mainpage
2 Wikipedia
3 Pluto
4 United States
5 List of gay porn stars [straight female porn stars
are at rank 68]
6 Sexual intercourse
7 Wii
8 Wiki
9 List of sex positions
10 Kama Sutra
11 Pornography
12 Solar system
13 Google Earth
14 List of big-bust models and performers
15 Comair Flight 5191
16 C programming language
17 The Simpsons
18 Oral sex
The
chart alas does not offer demographics, so we are unable
to conclude that the wiki population is dominated by geeks
with an interest in astrononomy, The Simpsons,
air disasters, code and gymnastics.
A more detailed report later in the month identified ranks
as follows -
1
Main Page
2 JonBenét Ramsey
3 Pluto
4 Wikipedia
5 United States
6 Pokémon
7 Neighbours
8 Wiki
9 Priyanka Chopra
10 List of big-bust models and performers
11 World Wrestling Entertainment roster
12 Hurricane Katrina
13 Wii
14 Irukandji jellyfish
15 List of gay porn stars
16 Morocco
17 Table of Disney characters
18 Pornography
19 List of female porn stars
20 Jeff Hardy
21 List of sex positions
22 Linkin Park
23 Hubbert peak theory
24 New York
25 United States Air Force
26 Angelina Jolie
27 Nicole Scherzinger
28 Grigori Perelman
29 Celebrity sex tape
30 Sasuke Uchiha
31 Nazi Germany
32 Brooke Hogan
33 Fable [video game]
34 11 September 2001 attacks
35 Volkswagen Type 2
36 2006
37 Sun
38 Circumcision
39 Comair Flight 5191
40 Titans [comics]
41 Friends
42 List of Weeds episodes
43 Wonder Woman
44 C programming language
45 Top Gear
46 List of Digimon
47 Formula One
48 The Illuminatus! Trilogy
49 Decimation [comics]
50 Iran
51 Broken Lizard
52 Solar system
53 HIV
54 All Eyez on Me
55 Cytherea [erotic actress]
56 Final Fantasy
57 Alien
58 Head louse
59 John Cena
60 Pyramid Head
61 IMAX
62 Renaissance
63 Final Fantasy VII
64 List of The Simpsons episodes
65 Spawn (comics)
66 Ottoman Empire
67 Tupac Shakur
68 Naruto dies [Naruto episode]
69 Rome
70 Iraq War
71 Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
72 Dragon Ball GT
73 Vladimir Lenin
74 Tonsillolith
75 Silent Hill
76 Hawaii
77 The Girls Next Door
78 David Bowie
79 Peter North [porn star]
80 Biodiesel
81 Civil engineering
82 Kama Sutra
83 Sexual intercourse
84 West Highland White Terrier
85 Bully Kutta
86 Bisexual chic
87 Tungsten
88 Anaerobic organism
89 YuYu Hakusho
90 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
91 Nik Kershaw
92 List of female singers
93 Islam in Argentina
94 Rolfing
95 Ari Gold
96 Henny Youngman
97 Windows registry
98 Reinhard Heydrich
99 Red-Haired Shanks
100 Dave Karnes
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