Every year most popular search engines releases the stats which are the compilation of the most searched queries of the year. All popular search engines on internet have released their own top search terms in this year, and they might be interesting for you.

If you own a website, it is always good to know what is popular and in trend at the given moment. If you react fast and provide some quality work, you will success. As 2010 comes to a close, it is time to check out which terms was the most popular in 2010.

Google Top Search Terms in 2010

Google’s top search engine terms is also known as Google Zeitgeist. There you can see some detailed stats about search engine terms on a global or a local areas.

Here are the 10 search queries that grew fastest in 2010 (UK):
1 Chatroulette
2 Formspring
3 Hotmail signin
4 ipad
5 justin bieber
6 worldcup 2010
7 fb
8 santander
9 youtube
10 metcheck

Top 10 Fastest-Rising People that grew fastest in 2010 (UK)
1 Kristian digby
2 justin bieber
3 nicki minaj
4 ellie goulding
5 alexander
6 mcqueen
7 kesha
8 miranda kerr
9 kim kardashian
10 katy perry

Yahoo! Top Search Terms in 2010

Yahoo is one of the most popular search engine today. Serving billions of search queries each year with thousands of satisfied users and members worldwide.

Here are top 10 most popular search queries in 2010 (UK):

1. Lottery
2. Job centre
3. Weather
4. Big Brother
5. Cheryl Cole
6. TV guide
7. World Cup
8. Train times
9. Katie Price
10. Horoscopes

Yahoo! has a great website which shows a whole Year in Review. Showing you the most popular trends and keywords from this search engine, allowing you to find some other good information.

Bing Top Search Engine Terms in 2010

The Bing is a web search engine from Microsoft and it is one of the three most popular search engines on internet. Let’s see which terms was the most popular in 2010 from this search engine.

The most popular overall search queries in 2010 (USA):

1 kim kardashian
2 sandra bullock
3 tiger woods
4 lady gaga
5 barack obama
6 hairstyles
7 kate goosselin
8 walmart
9 justin bieber
10 free

Most popular people searched in 2010 on Bing:

1. Kim Kardashian
2. Sandra Bullock,
3. Tiger Woods,
4. Lady Gaga
5. Barack Obama
6. Kate Gosselin
7. Justin Bieber
8. Jesse James
9. Lindsay Lohan
10. Jennifer Aniston
11. Michael Jackson

You can also see the most popular people searched in 2010 on Bing from their official blog. Interesting thing to notice there is that Kim Kardashian has received roughly 20% more searches than the second most popular search term on Bing in 2010.

Top 10 Search Terms on All Search Engines

So, let’s now look which are the most popular search engine terms on all search engines was in 2010. Including all above search engine query stats from Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Top 10 overall search engine terms in 2010:

1 Justin Bieber (Celebrity)
2 World Cup (Global event)
3 iPad (Apple’s gadget)
4 iPhone (Apple’s gadget)
5 Kim Kardashian (Celebrity)
6 Lady Gaga (Celebrity)
7 Chatroulette (Online service)
8 BP Oil Spill (Global event)
9 Megan Fox (Celebrity)
10 Swine Flu (Global event)

So, what we can learn from this? We have here 4 celebrities, 3 global events, 2 popular gadgets and 1 online service. So, we can guarantee that the most popular searches on internet in UK (and probably worldwide) are related to the celebrities. Following with global events, Apple products and online services.

Six degrees of separation defines that given any two persons in the world, they can be related through at most six “friends of”. This concept was founded in 1995 and it has became part of the most welcomed notion being used around the world. It is also known as the Small World Phenomenon.

The phrase six degrees of separation is permanently etched into our collective psyches. The idea that every person in the world is generally no more than six degrees or connections removed from each other is a powerful, sticky concept that resonates with many people. Web 2.0 technologies, a continuation of the advancement of communication capabilities, may be helping us cut that average in half, especially through social networking sites like Facebook and microblogging services like Twitter.

Six degrees of separation

This catch phrase was inspired by the results of the “small world” experiments conducted by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the United States of America in 1967 in order to determine how long it would take to get a letter from one stranger to another. After the results of this test were analyzed, Milgram’s team determined that the average path length, or the number of connections required to get from one point to another, was approximately 5.5, which rounds up to six.

Watch the documentary unfolding the science behind the idea of six degrees of separation. Originally thought to be an urban myth, it now appears that anyone on the planet can be connected in just a few steps of association. Six degrees of separation is also at the heart of a major scientific breakthrough; that there might be a law which nature uses to organize itself and that now promises to solve some of its deepest mysteries.

Interesting Links :
Microsoft proves there are just six degrees of separation between us
Six Degrees of Separation, Twitter Style

Microsoft quietly launched its search engine Bing this sunday after presenting it in public last week. Following are few notable features.

I tested a preview release of Microsoft’s new search/decision engine, previously called Kumo, to see how well it compares. Here’s a breakdown of its new features and how well they perform.

New Explorer Pane

Bing’s new look focuses on a left-hand navigation menu called the Explorer Pane. This extra column of content includes Quick Tabs that break searches down into Web Groups relevant to your search. For example, a search on “Nikon D70″ triggers the Explorer Pane to create Quick Tabs for shopping, accessories, and videos all based on what your intent might be. Under Quick Tabs in the Explorer Pane are additional subcategories such as ‘Related Searches’ and ‘Search History’; the latter, as its name implies, shows you recent searches. Microsoft asserts that 50 percent of all searches are repeats, and that providing a session history therefore offers a shortcut to results of redundant searches.

My take: The Explorer Pane can be extremely useful, which may make the trade-off of cluttering up the search results page worthwhile. But in my initial tests, Quick Tabs often steered me to Microsoft services such as Bing Shopping, Bing Travel, MSN Autos, and Bing health information. It may be that those Bing sites offer the best content, but I get suspicious of any search engine that habitually gives its own links precedence over others’.

Search Results Now Categorized

Bing distributes its search results into various search categories. For example, Bing divided the results of my search for “Saturn Vue” into the categories ‘MSN Autos’, ‘general search results’, ‘problems’, ‘images’, ‘parts’, ‘repair’, and ‘specs’.

My Take: Though a logical breakdown of categories within search results can be convenient, it does lead to a lot of scrolling down. I’m not sure that I want to scroll–and scroll some more–to find what I’m looking for. Furthermore, categorized search seems a bit redundant when you have the handy Explorer Pane to help you focus your search results by categories.

Instant Results

Bing joins Yahoo in declaring war against the “ten blue links” approach to reporting search results–Google’s method of displaying lists of Web sites that might be what you’re looking for. Bing takes a two-pronged approach to fight “blue link” fatigue. First, its Quick Preview feature gives you a text-based synopsis of the pages displayed in your search results. I dragged my mouse cursor over individual search results for “Babe Ruth,” and up popped a box of data pulled from the site.

Bing also peppers search results with what Microsoft calls Instant Answers. As the name implies, Instant Answers serve up answers to questions such as currency conversion, weather forecasts, and movie times.