chlorophyll Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Bing came out with its top searches of 2009 yesterday, and now Yahoo is doing the same. Normally, you'd expect some differences but for the most part things should look pretty much the same, right? Wrong, as it turns out, apart from the top search topic which was Michael Jackson on both search engines, the top 10 is completely different with not one search term shared between the two. The top, and the major differences between the Bing one, paints a very clear picture of the ones using Yahoo Search, currently the number two search engine in the world by market share. All searches are very much media-related and many are for celebrities. This can be easily explained by the audiences of the two search engines. Bing is more popular with the tech-savvy crowd while Yahoo is more appealing to the mainstream. Top 10 Overall Searches for 20091. Michael Jackson2. Twilight3. WWE4. Megan Fox5. Britney Spears6. Naruto7. American Idol8. Kim Kardashian9. NASCAR10. Runescape - Top 10 Mobile Searches for 20091. Megan Fox2. Mobile Games3. Michael Jackson4. Movies5. Rihanna6. Mail7. Lady Gaga8. NFL9. Ringtones10. iPhoneOne missing item in particular is very interesting, Twitter, which, despite making it to number two in the Bing top, is nowhere to be seen on Yahoo's top 10 perhaps telling of how much the mainstream audience really cares about the fledgling microblogging platform. Maybe the fact that Bing has recently integrated Twitter into the search engine had something to do with the improved standing, though that alone can't account for the discrepancy. Things should get even more interesting once the two search engines merge as Bing will be powering Yahoo Search as well. The only difference between the two then will be in the way the results are presented and the domain name so it should be interesting to see how the tops will look like next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_Intel Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Omg Runescape? I quit runescape awhile ago, sorry but RS is gay lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Many of the top searches are something I wouldn't even think of being top... Kim Kardashian? Is she really so popular :unsure: Naruto, Runescape... ? okay :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chlorophyll Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 hey kim is really popular man..?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 hey kim is really popular man..??????Is she? I mean not more popular than Paris Hilton... or even Adam Lambert ffs :lol: but I really couldn't give a duck, I search none of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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