MetaCrawler Top Search Terms: June 1998
Below are the most active keywords searched for on go2net's MetaCrawler, the web's most-used metasearch tool. MetaCrawler searches AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo simultaneously. The terms are provided by go2net. For further information, and for permission to use this information, please contact [email protected].
Top Gainers
The chart below shows the top 15 keywords which have risen the most on MetaCrawler from the previous month.
(Note: MetaCrawler does not yet report search phrases. For example, the list will not show how many times people searched for "Lost In Space," though individual words such as "lost" and "space" might appear apart from each other. The commentary below the chart makes some educated guesses at popular search terms that may have occurred.)
Top 15 Gainers - June 1998 | ||
Term | Rank | Change |
lopez | 824 | +2062 |
unreal | 455 | +1238 |
hewitt | 439 | +829 |
birth | 534 | +806 |
monica | 954 | +764 |
x-files | 772 | +734 |
cup | 84 | +523 |
denise | 681 | +518 |
gran | 882 | +383 |
fair | 718 | +377 |
turismo | 904 | +369 |
kombat | 775 | +334 |
hacks | 971 | +328 |
richards | 522 | +280 |
thumbnail | 419 | +263 |
Women dominated the top terms in June. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt continued to gain popularity, represented once again among the top gainers. Actresses Denise Richards and Jennifer Lopez also gained popularity.
The X-Files movie got many people searching for the truth out there via MetaCrawler, while others probably were seeking that live Internet birth.
Computer game fans continued to be into Gran Turismo, while Unreal was a new entry. Real world game fans sought World Cup information.
Finally, Monica Lewinsky grabbed people's attention once again. The word "monica" was ranked 1,084 in March, then declined until June, when it broke 1,000.
Top Losers
The chart below shows the top 15 keywords which have dropped the most on MetaCrawler from the previous month.
Top 15 Losers - June 1998 | ||
Term | Rank | Change |
mothers | 4159 | -3444 |
seinfeld | 2761 | -2133 |
may | 2075 | -1186 |
facts | 1891 | -975 |
vietnam | 1541 | -970 |
tekken | 1789 | -917 |
weapons | 1588 | -648 |
biography | 1255 | -646 |
population | 1430 | -615 |
ancient | 1465 | -614 |
marijuana | 1299 | -574 |
spain | 1331 | -521 |
solar | 1403 | -496 |
culture | 1326 | -496 |
drugs | 1278 | -495 |
With Mother's Day gone in May, so went its popularity as a search term. The same was true for Seinfeld. As for the rest, your guess is as good as mine!
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