New Project shows International Google search queries.

A projected display, called Live Query, shows updated Google searches

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A projected display, called Live Query, shows updated samples of what people around the world are typing into Google's search engine in the 86 languages that Google recognizes eg. English, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, French, Dutch, Italian etc.
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Google 150 million queries a day from over 100 countries -- updating in milliseconds by Google's Logs Team.

[Torben Lundsgaard]

Hi aaaa, Welcome to Webmaster World [webmasterworld.com]

Please elaborate on your post. Are you saying that Google are giving away their search stats? Where?

Torben

[vitaplease]

[bayarea.com...]

aaaaah, I think he means the Google's headquarters display ;)

[Torben Lundsgaard]

So all I have to do is get a job at Google. Do yo think that they will let me SEO stuff on weekends?

[lazerzubb]

A Picture of it [aaronsw.com]

Another picture [aaronsw.com]

[edited by: lazerzubb at 3:15 pm (utc) on Dec. 5, 2002]

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I'm guessing they carefully filter those results... :)

[Mohamed_E]

Yes, from the NY Times article:

"You can learn to say 'sex' in a lot of different languages by looking at the logs," said Craig Silverstein, director of technology at Google. (To keep Live Query G-rated, Google filters out sex-related searches, though less successfully with foreign languages.)

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What is the Latest on "Live Query"?

I would appreciate any Updates, anyone could share.

Thanx

[Mikkel Svendsen]

I've seen the display at the Googleplex. In the beginning they did not filter out all dirty words in all languages (i mean, how could they) which put them in some very embarrassing situations having executive visitors from certain countries.

I remember one article one or two years ago that mentioned a visit by a large German corporation that was quite shocked by the words Google projected on the reception wall LOL. I believe they have better filtering now :)

[amznVibe]

If you want to actually see something similar to Google's live query,
MetaSpy has been open to the public for years now: [metaspy.com...]

obviously not as huge as Google but alot of people
still use Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com) -aV-

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Will Google put together something similar to
Overture Keyword suggestion Tool ( inventory.overture.com )
or the Wordtracker tool (which searches DogPile and Metacrawler)?

Ironically, on Google's Adwords they do have a similar tool to Overture's but it does Not provide the "amounts" of queries for the Search Terms.

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This is quite a good one as well- [ask.co.uk...]
(look out for the classics: "where can I find the website www.microsoft.com" etc)...

[jackofalltrades]

Wordtracker still displays www.hotmail.com as one of the top search terms for the period (day? month?).

It stands testiment to our SELL SELL SELL cutlure - advertising prevails of education. ;)

JOAT

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Google's Adwords offer a Keyword suggestion tool

[adwords.google.com...]

that seems to list keywords in order of popularity without the numbers that Overture assigns to their keyword popularity tool.

Has anyone used Google's tool for website optimization, how accurate does it appear to be.

[cfx211]

Does anyone have a list of sites where you can get a glimpse of businesses' stats?

Some of these make for very good competitive analysis, and if businesses want to make them publically available then more power to them (or us).

This for instance is a breakdown of blurty.com's user base.

[blurty.com...]

Doubt many of you are into blog sites, but if you wanted to launch your own this would be a good place to start.

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Google is now using the same ranking postioning in it's directory that it is using in it's default Google Search.

Putting in keywords in Google search - looking at the results- then, clicking the directory tab will show the same order - except it lists sites that have made it into Dmoz and listed in the Google directory.

Google spiders the full text of these sites just like they spider the web search sites, however, they still use Dmoz's editors descriptions.

The titles that are used are these site's are the webmaster's, however, they are not updatesd as frequently as the web searches are so - there are TWO cached versions of each site (one for dir.google.com and one for Google.com)

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Nielsen/NetRatings, show that Google is the most popular search service reaching about 37.3 million people in the United States in the month of December 2002. Yahoo! Search follows with 36.5 million visitors, and MSN Search is third with 34.3 million.

Google was recently named the leading brand in 2002 over names like Apple Computer and Coke, according to marketing company Interbrand