8 Great Resources to Find Out the Most Popular Things People Are Searching For Today

[tehpwna]

Great list mate, Gives me somewere to look for my ideas!

I also found these helpfull.
Kelkoo Charts | Top Searches - Kelkoo
What People Search For - Most Popular Keywords - Search Engine Watch

Thanks for helping,
Scott

[JuneM]

Compete
See what the comp. is up to.

[wizent]

Thanks a stack. Really good resources. Keep up the good work.

[S.Hunter]

Thank you very much for the resources.

[Cfloyd]

Originally Posted by SeanMc

This is very useful SEOmoz | Popular Searches

aggregates a lot of the great sources on the web of "popular searches".

Now this is a great site. Everything all wrapped up in one place.

Thanks Sean

[Cfloyd]

Originally Posted by wrkfrmhm

I have just finished reading through this thread and the Firefox redux on the 30DC Blog. Listing and bookmarking all the great suggestions (taking a leaf out of Mike Mindel's book) I used scribefire to take notes... Wow you guys are awesome! Take a look at the list! (I have disabled links to comply with forum rules)

1. 43things.com 43 Things
2. About.com Be a Guide Topics About - Be a Guide
3. About.com A to Z list About.com A-Z
4. Alexa Top 500 Alexa Web Search - Top 500
5. Amazon Hot New Releases Amazon.com Hot New Releases: The bestselling new & future releases on Amazon.com. Updated hourly.
6. Amazon Magazines http://www.amazon.com/magazine-newspaper-subscriptions/
7. AOL Hot Searches AOL Hot Searches
8. Ask.com Top Searches About Ask.com: IQ
9. Barnes & Noble Daily top Sellers - Barnes*&*Noble
10. BoingBoing Boing Boing
11. Delicious.com Popular del.icio.us
12. Digg.com Popular Archive Digg / Popular News Archive for June, 2008
13. Digg Spy digg spy
14. Dummies.com All Titles - For Dummies
15. eBay Hot Categories monthly pdf report http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf
16. eBay Marketplace Research Overview
17. eBay Pulse eBay Pulse: trends, hot picks, cool stuff and popular searches on eBay.com
18. eBay Seller Central eBay - Seller Central - Welcome
19. eBay What's Hot eBay: Redirect
20. eHow eHow | How To Do Just About Everything!
21. Face Book Welcome to Facebook! | Facebook
22. FreeIQ.com Free IQ - The Marketplace for Ideas
23. Google Catalogs Google Catalogs
24. Google Groups Google Groups
25. Google Groups Active Google Groups
26. Google Keyword Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
27. Google News - Most Popular Google News - Most Popular
28. Google Trends Google Trends: Jun 1, 2008
29. Google Zeitgeist Google Press Center: Zeitgeist
30. GoogSpy GoogSpy - Adwords Competitor Research by Velocityscape
31. How to Do Things.com How To Do Things.com
32. Keyword Discovery Keyword Discovery - Advanced keyword research tool and search term suggestion tool
33. Live Search Live Search
34. Lycos 50 Lycos 50 - Lycos 50: David Cook Wins, Indiana Jones Hits & Katie Debuts
35. Magazines.com Magazines.com Magazine Subscriptions
36. Meetup Topics Meetups by Topic - Meetup.com
37. My Goals Goals & Goal-Setting: Setting Goals at myGoals.com
38. MySimon Categories All Shopping Departments
39. MySimon Top Searches Top Searches - Shop at mySimon
40. Neilsen Net Ratings Nielsen//NetRatings - A global leader in Internet media and market research
41. Netscape Popular AOL.com - Netscape
42. Omgili Omgili - Find out what people are saying
43. Reddit.com Popular reddit.com: what's new online!
44. SEObook Keyword Tool Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
45. SEOmoz SEOmoz | Popular Searches
46. Technorati Popular Technorati Popular
47. Thisnext.com/activity ThisNext - Recommend, Share and Discover Great Products! - ThisNext
48. Trendwatching trendwatching.com: Consumer trends and insights from around the world
49. VeiwDo ViewDo: Know-how on-the-go now!
50. viralvideochart.com Viral Video Chart - Top 20 Viral Videos
51. WikiHow wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit
52. WordTracker.com Free Keyword Suggestion Tool from Wordtracker
53. Yahoo Answers Yahoo! Answers - Home
54. Yahoo Buzz Yahoo! Buzz

What a Resourse List! You Guys Rock!

Thanks for compiling all these

[wmbrewin]

a great list of resources, slowly checking them all out

Thanks

Wayne

[ivatel]

We could also add in YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Check out what vidoes etc are hot at the moment.

ivatel

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[nextday]

The whole goal of looking for things that people are looking for is to find niches.

Here's a thread that has some additional places to look:

Sites For Finding Niche Ideas

I thought about merging that thread with this one, but decided not to; it's tightly-related but with a different angle and an interesting discussion (very relevant to the 2008 challenge.)

Plus, folks may have bookmarked it, and I'm not sure what moving the posts would have done to people's bookmarks.