Sorta sounds like i'm back in school with the given thread title. Eh, need to drink some coffee to wakeup.
Quote: A search query, in its essence, is a question requiring an answer. Fortunately the search engines are intelligent enough to find us what we need with most any query, but some inquiries require more specification than just a term.
Searchers use modifiers to fish for greater accuracy with their terms all the time -- the proverbial long tail. But what happens with the searchers who are as specific as directly asking a question?
With the recent IPO of Demand Media (owner of eHow) and the buzz regarding Google's Panda algorithm changes, my questions suddenly required answers as well.
For the sake of this analysis, let's define the marketplace as all search terms in the United States that contained at least one of the following words in January 2011 vs. year ago: who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Below is an illustration of the number of searchers and searches on these terms in January:
Continued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/3641983
Anyone care to share any thoughts on these results?
Quote: A search query, in its essence, is a question requiring an answer. Fortunately the search engines are intelligent enough to find us what we need with most any query, but some inquiries require more specification than just a term.
Searchers use modifiers to fish for greater accuracy with their terms all the time -- the proverbial long tail. But what happens with the searchers who are as specific as directly asking a question?
With the recent IPO of Demand Media (owner of eHow) and the buzz regarding Google's Panda algorithm changes, my questions suddenly required answers as well.
For the sake of this analysis, let's define the marketplace as all search terms in the United States that contained at least one of the following words in January 2011 vs. year ago: who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Below is an illustration of the number of searchers and searches on these terms in January:
Continued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/3641983
Anyone care to share any thoughts on these results?