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In honor of Search Engine Snark’s 50th post, hit earlier today, let’s take a look at how people are searching for a fair descriptor for the site, and an exclamation that’s enjoying a revival thanks to Barney Stinson and just being righteous: Awesome.
Standing on its own, ‘awesome’ drives approximately 246,000 searches per month on Google. That’s a hell of a lot for something that, on its own, doesn’t so much mean anything. Ranking #1 for awesome in Google, in case you were wondering: Dictionary.com. Take that for what it’s worth. See also #1 video search result for ‘awesome‘ and image result for ‘awesome‘.
Not surprisingly, it’s misspelled cousin ‘awsome’ is the next closest competitor at 44,600 per month. #1 for ‘awsome’: Urban dictionary. Now we’re getting a little warmer. Next up is ‘awesome god’ at 22,500 - and this is where things start getting fun.
‘Awesome games’ brings in 12,100 per month, along with ‘awesome quotes’. ‘Awesome icons’ registers 8,100 (seriously people, they’re tiny and 8 bit, there’s only so much awesome that can possibly be generated). Awesome names drives 2,400 (assuming the sweetest baby name resource out there). A hunting site known as ‘awesome antlers’ is popular enough to generate 1,000 searches per month, and the ‘awesome man’ video shorts attract 1,600.
Some further tail terms worth noting:
- Awesome in spanish: 140 searches per month – But but but it’s the universal sentiment!
- Awesome questions: 110 searches per month – No word on how many people are looking for the awesome answer.
- Awesome orange: 90 searches per month – What? These things are way too small to really get excited about – what exactly are you doing with these things, man?
- Lord awesome: 46 searches per month – I don’t know about you, but I have a new ambition in life after seeing this…
- To awesome: 12 searches per month – That’s all awesome was really missing: A verb form.
For those who’ve been reading from the start, thank you greatly for your support, or at least for not throwing things at us. For those reading for the first time, there are at least 50 more where this came from – so get started you lazy, johnny-come-lately jackass. And get me some nachos while you’re up, I’m Lord Awesome and I demand tribute, dammit!
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So this is the first time I’ve seen your blog, and just wanted you to know that I started out with some subtle “tee-hees” and ended up with head on the desk laughing by the end of this post. Informative and, indeed, snarky, in that Herndon and Kristi style that I miss!
We miss you too, Nicole! Thanks for the kind words, hello to Craig and Brett!