Searchers using longer search-queries At the Hitwise blog Alan Long reports on trends he spotted in Google Australia. Though its an Australian report the trend he sees is global: the lengthening of search terms is growing. One word search terms declined with 2.3% and two word search terms with 1.9%. Requests longer than three words have increased by 2,8%. Four - words have increased 1.2% and 5 words plus have seen a solid increase over the past two years, with a 1.2% increase in the past 12 months.  Long also notices a difference between the search engines. Where Google's search queries become longer, Bing search queries are much more single and two word requests.  CommentAddicted or not?0 comments  Social media is everywhere and has found it's way deep in human society. So deep that a new addiction is born.. Facebook!
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I think since algorithms have improved, people have come to expect better results from search engines, so are making more specific searches.
I recently did some research on searches containing different numbers of words (1 - 18 words) and found a significant volume of searches with 5 words or more.
http://www.alanmitchell.com.au/techniques/benefits-of-long-tail-keywords/
Guess as search engines continue to invest in providing more relevant search results, the popularity of long-tail searches will only continue to grow.
Fri 27 Nov 2009, 03:29