Another day and another year-end list of popular search terms. This time from Dogpile.
The Infospace/Dogpile folks also provide a few lists that show the LEAST popular terms of the year. To make a "least popular" list a word or phrase had to be searched a minimum of 50 times, but no more than 100.
Lists include:
Top 10 Searches Overall 2006
1. Ecards
2. MySpace (directional search)
3. Music lyrics
Top 10 Retailers of 2006
1. Walmart
2. Home Depot
3. Amazon.com
Top Gift Card Searches of December 2006
1. Visa gift cards
2. American Express gift cards
3. Mastercard gift cards
Top 10 Travel Searches of 2006
1. Southwest Airlines
2. Driving directions (directional search)
3. Travelocity
Least Searched Questions of 2006
1. What is a snood?
2. What do snails eat?
3. How many gold medals did the U.S. women win in the Olympics?
Least Searched Cities of 2006
1. New Hope, PA
2. Montauk, NY
3. Columbia, MO
As you might expect Dogpile notes in the news release:
Any adult content terms have been filtered out of results and category lists above have been compiled from Dogpile.com by InfoSpace personnel.
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