Google Insights. It’s .com people
Looking for a bargain from the Sainsburys website? What are you going to do, try www.sainsburys.co.uk which is the sensible option, or go to Google and search for sainsburys?
Google has published its most recent trending search topics for the USA and they’re topped by searches for an internationally unknown socialite closely followed at number 3 by Tiger Woods. The pair are supposedly involved but deny it.
After searches for the Spanish version of Big Brother come a series of searches linked to the recent Black Friday annual American online retail sales bonanza.
What’s not surprising is the number of searches that are still made for what you would consider to be blindingly obvious domains.
Wal Mart for instance is cast iron guaranteed to own wallmart.com. I don’t need Google to tell me that. The same goes for Kohls and Best Buy.
This shows nothing much changes. I recall writing something similar to this at least 5 years ago.
Number 10 is paranormal activity, up 50% over the last 7 days. I’m not sure what triggered that, possibly the impending mid season finale of Flash Forward.
