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- bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20My wife says that a lot for some odd reason.
- pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I'm surprised "hot" and "coffee" aren't up there.
- tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Would be a much more interesting list if it didn't contain words such as A, The, And, Of
Perhaps a top 100 would yield more interesting results. - Daz_Genetic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's a sad time in history where the word "copyright" is used more often than "an".
- swhite1987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html
- BlackSheepx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9...Must have been fun to calculate?
- bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yes. I would rather see words that we know almost everyone doesnt use in our everyday speech
- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I've compiled the stats with PHP5, MySQL and the Google Web API...
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Top Gainers:
8. fur x 928
That's damn interesting. - beelz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9starbucks. they everywhere.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I honestly can not comprehend what would posess someone to do that, but I guess its pretty interesting. Does anyone else find it odd that 'furl' gained in popularity by x 6155?
- sfields, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, it amazes me sometimes what free time and a set of skills can produce. =)
- sclozza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"transistorise".
Sounds to me like an inventorised word. - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5To all the whiners:
Download the list - run it through awk and extract what interest you... Or if you are technically retarded, use Excel.
http://blog.outer-court.com/words/word-hits-2006.zip - nk231, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is exactly what i was gonnna say.
how come stories like this get to stay on the front page? - sgtpinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like how the author of the article has a handy 'download this as a CSV file' link.
I better grab myself a copy! And email one to myself for backup ;-) - sc0ticus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I...I just fail to see the point. Sure, I understand what you did, but it's useless to know that "the" is the most common search term, just look in the dictionary for chirssake.
It'd be much more worthwhile to consider just proper names. - muyuu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also Spanish. Spoken by many more people. ("Próximo", but google skips accentuation)
- ctech2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So, a page whose textual context is
"This web site is about your privacy at home. Contact all of us for the copyright information. You are 'with it' and more."
will probably be one of zillions of hits. (I couldn't fit the other 7 words in.) - Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But... the whole list of 27,000 words including their 2003 and 2006 ranking is included at the end of the post (as a download).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3furl? http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=furl.net.
Looks like furl.net is pretty popular. could explain some of it. - drigz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MindFlayer: not really, when you consider that almost any site will have a disclaimer at the bottom... but I see your point that they are the only words with a real semantic significance.
- GuineaPig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It might not be interesting to you, but it is to those who are interested in word statistics.
A lot of text compression schemes are based upon word frequency, and given that Google has the largest digitized English corpus, it's instructive to compare with previous, much smaller corpuses. - Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6I think he's referring to a certain video game hack ...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hay guys! 2006 isn't over.
- orcimtfos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, the most popular "word" that can be entered in Google, currently beating the word "a" by one hundred and twentyfive million, is "www" (currently 25,270,000,000).
- sambeau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is fascinatingly boring! i.e. no surprises really.
However, try typing 'a' into google and see who is top :-)
That's more of a Digg story.. - MindFlayer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree, the only interesting ones on there were "copyright" and "privacy."
- ben.0081, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the most searched thing on the Internet is............ "a"!!! that's right kids, everyone wants to know about "a".
- M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wrong article, ignore.
- Zephiron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The tenth foreing word PROXIMO is portuguese for NEXT
- justwondering, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nubious, speaking of words.......could you PLEASE tell me what your user ID name means?! I awoke from a dream a few days ago with "nubious" being the last word I remember......I cannot find the definition ANY PLACE on the web and it's driving me over the edge...lol.
thanks for your help...
Leah - stopman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Here's an article I wrote on how many times Google comes up on Slashdot every year and the average number of comments per post. Kind of interesting: http://stopman.blogspot.com/2006/04/slashdot-data-mining-google-fight.html
- daggerhart, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1lol...
this artical is lame.
the list of words is rediculously boring.
no digg. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1wow: porn,p0rn,boobs,tit,ass,lesbain,sex
are no ware to be foud
(sorry i hit submit before is spellcheked it) - manfrin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Google is searching 25bil now?
Holy... - akifbayram, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2the first guy said wut i was gunna say
It was, of course, time consuming, but not too hard - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Where did you see that?? What a tard.
- stedios, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1LOL
- xilihwala, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0funny a the to
- ohhhL3ThaL, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4oh my those words are so uncommon.
"kiddy" and "porn" ranked 31 and 32
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