Just a few days ago, we brought you the top searches of 2012 for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Today, we give you the top Yahoo search terms most frquently entered for the past year, a primary competitor of Bing despite the fact that both search engines work off the same search algorithms.
A new press release published by comScore reveals that Monday of this week – Cyber Monday, in case you somehow managed to miss it — was the biggest online shopping day in history.
Microsoft’s Bing announces their search engine list of the top search trends for 2012, and it’s about double the size of last year’s list.
Although most of the 19 Bing search categories are strongly focused on pop culture – they kind of have to be, since a search trend can’t make it to the “top” unless it’s popular – they still serve as useful information to creative site owners and internet marketers within any niche.
Bing unveiled its Social Sidebar about six months ago, allowing users to see how the recent activity of their social media friends relates to their current searches. While the feature lets you know which of your friends might be able to help with whatever you’re searching for based on their social media activity, it can be a little startling visually, and lacks features that could make it a truly useful device.
