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Google is no doubt, the world biggest search engine. It is said to get 112,000,000 hits per day. This represents about 35 percent of all search engine hits on the internet. Breathing down its neck is Yahoo. Their search engine is said to get about 32 percent of all hits. This only leaves a measly 33 percent for all the other search engines combined. But have you ever wonder what the heck are all those people searching for? I wondered and did a little research and have come up with some interesting answers, at least I think they are interesting. I used the Google search engine to base my data on.

For the week ending on December 6, 2004, the top 10 queries that were gaining were:

1. Anna Benson
2. the used
3. Ken Jennings
4. Rachel Hunter
5. Jeopardy
6. Debra Lafave
7. chupacebra
8. Hanukkah
9. urban meyer
10 Christmas

For that same week the top 10 queries that were declining were:

1. Thanksgiving
2. Denise Richards
3. Kmart
4. Rosario Dawson
5. Salma Hayek
6. Gwen Stefani
7. Heidi Klum
8. Dick Ebersol
9. Julia Roberts
10. green bean casserole


The most popular women in searches on Google for the month of November 2004 were:

1. Tara Reid
2. Madonna
3. Britney Spears
4. Paris Hilton
5. Carmen Electra
6. Pamela Anderson
7. Beyonce
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Jenna Jameson
10. Jessica Simpson

For the same month the most popular men in searches were:

1. Eminem
2. Usher
3. John Kerry
4. Johnny Depp
5. George W Bush
6. Michael Moore
7. Camilo Mejia
8. Brad Pitt
9. Howard Stern
10. Chad Michael Murray

The five most popular travel queries for November 2004 were:

1 Mapquest
2. weather
3. hotels
4. Expedia
5. Southwest Airlines

The five most popular entertainment queries for the same month were:

1. videogames (as one word)
2. Halo 2
3. lyrics
4. anime
5. ESPN

The five most popular news sources queried on Google for November 2004 were:

1. CNN
2. Fox News
3. BBC News
4. New York Times
5. Washington Post

The ten most popular news queries for November 2004 were:

1. election results
2. Iraq
3. Arafat
4. Scott Peterson
5. Halo 2
6. Ukraine
7. Fallujah (city in Iraq)
8. Cuba
9. Firefox (web browser)
10. NBA

The five most popular names searched for in the news for November 2004 were:

1. Camilo Mejia
2. Yasser Arafat
3. Scott Peterson
4. Tim Russert
5. Michael Moore

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Google doesn't only allow text searches but also searches for images. Here are the results for image searches for the month of November 2004:

The five most popular cartoon searches were:

1. The Simpsons
2. South Park
3. Pokemon
4. Diddi
5. Garfield

The five most popular musician's photos were: (this includes singers)

1. Britney Spears
2. Eminem
3. Beyonce
4. Avril Lavigne
5. Usher

And last, the ten most requested pictures and/or photos for the month were:

1. Christmas
2. Halo 2
3. Ferrari
4. dragon
5. angel
6. sinterklaas
7. Thanksgiving
8. baby
9. Harry Potter
10. hello kitty

Now you know what people are searching for on the web and especially on Google.