Web search terms...

[Gareth Branwyn]

There are a number of "search ticker" sites that show you realtime Web
searches:

http://webcrawler.com/SearchTicker.html
http://www.metaspy.com/

They are fascinating (and disturbing). The spelling is sobering: "Holy
Bibul," "the california trale," "vanerial disease," "restarunts." It's a
miracle people can find anything.

My favorite search string of all time:

"manage" AND "a" AND "trois"

Gareth Branwyn
Jargon Watch
Wired



-----Original Message-----
From: GSCole <gscole at ARK.SHIP.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: Web search terms...


>The following site provides a listing of the Most Popular 100 Internet
>Search Words, as well as listings of other most popular search
>(whatever).
>http://www.searchwords.com/
>
>Can't find much as to the process used by the site, but that info may
>reside in a link somewhere.  There may be similar 'most popular' sites
>around, but the only other one that I've seen provides a real-time
>streaming list.
>
>George S. Cole   gscole at ark.ship.edu
>Shippensburg University
>