Most Popular Google Searches

Each year we Internet Marketing types take a break after New Year's to blog about some of our findings from the previous year. A "2007 post-game show" as it were.

No single organization provides us with more Post-game fodder than Google and Google's 2007 Zeitgeist is no exception. What better way to decipher the past year than through the keywords entered into the largest search tool in history?

Our favorite tidbits from 2007:

1. Top "How To" questions - "What is Love" search volume eclipsed "How to Kiss".
   
   
2. "How to Levitate" makes the list! If Google can define love then it can teach you to levitate also...
   
   
3. Viral marketing works - Transformers is a top keyword for 2007. Producers created stunning visuals, enticing commercials and a viral marketing tactic for their target audience. They created a web interface where visitors could submit a web form and servers would deliver a customized message to a cell phone, directly from Optimus Prime. The interface has been off their site for over a month and people are still searching for the form.
   
   
4. Kids are in charge - Hannah Montana search volume makes the Rolling Stones tour look like it is - over...
   
   
5. The iPhone - The iPhone is everywhere.
   

Happy New Year from all of us at First Scribe!

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