Top Search Terms For Year 2006 Are BS!

Good old Danny of Search Engine Land wrote up a great post about how top search terms for 2006 are bull sh*T.

I have to agree. When I first saw these lists pop up I thought they were a bit off and built for the media. I mean these lists are great for the typical internet user and for the media to blow up, but for us SEO SEM people they are not accurate enough. I mean come on we know the lists are censored way to much.

Look at Yahoo top 10:

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Shakira
4. Jessica Simpson
5. Paris Hilton
6. American Idol
7. Beyonce Knowles
8. Chris Brown
9. Pamela Anderson
10. Lindsay Lohan

What BS! I know more general terms like sex (and other not so pretty terms) are typed into yahoo then Chris Brown or Lindsay Lohan.

Google was not as bad, but still bs.

1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki

I guess this information was given out for more end of year buzz and fun for the main stream media, but I beg anyone that puts a piss poor top 10 list out to put a disclaimer for us SEO SEM people stating “This list holds no research value and has been publish for the media, because we all know that sex is the top search term.”