I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Keyword Discovery as an SEO tool. When I was checking it out, I looked to see what they report as the top 10 general searches. The chart below is a simplified version of their data:

So here’s what struck me. Over 13 million people plug myspace into a search engine? That means that there are 13 million people who don’t know that adding .com to that and putting it in the address bar is the way to go? Same with the 13.5 million that type google in and the almost 9 million that type yahoo in and the over 7 million for ebay and 5 million for youtube. Is it just me that thinks this is odd?

The 5.6 million who actually typed myspace.com into a search engine may be the ones I wonder about the most though.

Scratch that. Actually I wonder about the millions of people who type porn and sex into a search engine with no qualifying words. I’m guessing that these folks figure it out, though. Seems to be a category of search where users are motivated to improve their search results.