Most Popular Search Terms for 2008 in Google [India]
Google has released the most popular search terms from India:
- orkut
- gmail
- yahoo
- youtube
- yahoomail
- indian railways
- rediff
- cricket
- katrina kaif
How to Kiss (one of the top How to query)
Top ‘how to’ searches
- how to reduce weight
- how to kiss
- how to earn money
- how to get pregnant
- how to learn english
- how to gain weight
- how to play guitar
- how to create a website
- how to impress a girl
- how to tie a tie
Katrina & Aishwarya - Google Diva
Top searches on mobile are:
- orkut
- yahoo
- waptrick
- gmail
- games
- katrina kaif
- rediffmail
- yahoomail
- namitha
Top holiday destinations
- goa
- kerala
- kashmir
- dubai
- singapore
- australia
- london
- shimla
- switzerland
- manali
Top Bollywood Celebrities
- katrina kaif
- aishwarya rai
- salman khan
- hrithik roshan
- kareena kapoor
- shahid kapur
- deepika padukone
- shahrukh khan
- mallika sherawat
- genelia d’souza
Get the list here
Any insight you can derive from these queries?
On a non-serious note, Aishwarya is between Katrina and Salman – will Jr B do something about this? 
Similarly, Kareena and Shahid are together – hope, Saif notices this!
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About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in.
He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]
why would one search for orkut, gmail, yahoo.. etc?
well probably this is just the default “I’m Feeling lucky search” in firefox’s address bar. people just type in “gmail” and then a search is called which takes them to gmail.com or ..
this is not a search actually. you really can’t be sure of any trends from this.. in fact people are too sure that just typing in gmail wil take them to gmail.com, so why bother(take the pain) to type full address or even press ctrl+enter.
You would be surprised how many people use Google as their address bar. My wife does it all the time. Kinda drives me nuts. She’ll type the website in the search bar instead and click on the link that comes up after the search. seems like an extra step to me, but to each his own!
This is very odd. There must be something amiss. May be naman has a point.
Searching for “google” (#4) on Google is highly meta, and ought to give some interesting results!