Most Googled Words, 2004-2015

And... updated this totally awesome quiz again for 2014. Almost doesn't fit on the page anymore. QM will be really sorry if he never features it and when he realizes the horrible mistake he's made there won't be space to fit all the answers!

Very boring update for 2015. Nothing new. But I merged the answer for "video" and "videos" since they're almost the same thing and so most people were not getting "videos." Slightly easier now.

There is tons of interesting information at google trends. I think I may some day use some of it to try and create more quizzes. If you look up the word "breasts" you can get some interesting stats. For instance, the search term is most popular in Zimbabwe.

Was founded in 2004 but if you were on a college campus at the time or if you watched the movie The Social Network you'll remember for the first several years the two big selling points of FB over MySpace was exclusivity and more privacy controls. It didn't become a site open to the general public until 2006.

Bing? Does anyone actually use Bing?

I think because after updating this and resetting the scores, I posted a link to it on another front-page quiz about most popular websites. In that linked comment, I mentioned that Yahoo was in the top 10 search results every year for the past decade... so anyone clicking through that link probably guessed Yahoo first.

Before I reset the scores, Facebook was far and away the most-guessed answer, and if this gets taken a few dozen more times I imagine it will be again.

New data is available but I haven't updated the quiz yet. I might just make the font smaller.

some words related to searches obviously looking for porn are pretty high up in the rankings but nowhere near the top 10.

JetPunk missed it's window. Coming 4 years later.

not even close.

custom format or something in the editor I don't remember