Search engines are a popular means of finding information on the Internet. Every second, users from all over the world make search queries, which can often coincide and correspond to the latest news or the desire to receive reference data.
Russian internet
Yandex remains one of the most popular search engines in Russia today. Its pages are viewed monthly over 3 billion times, i.e. more than 100 million queries are processed by the search engine every day. It should be noted that more than half of all search engine users are in 10 large cities in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Omsk, Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk). The average number of requests per user is 6-7 times per session of using the search engine until the moment the desired result is selected.
The most popular queries have the same wording and have the same spelling. Most of all people are looking for information related to social networks (for example, Vkontakte or Odnoklassniki). The list of the most popular Yandex queries includes the phrases “download for free”, “watch online”, “games for free”, “movies for free”, “download songs”, “download music”.
Geographic queries are also popular, for example, "St. Petersburg", "Map of Moscow", "Moscow". Navigation queries for finding sites with a specific address or category (for example, mail.ru or "online store") are gaining popularity. Sometimes users are looking for jobs ("job search"), and background information ("salad recipes").
Similar statistics for the Russian Internet has the search engine Google, which, however, is more popular abroad.
Detailed statistics of search queries can be obtained on the sites of popular search engines.
Foreign Internet
One of the most popular searches for 2013 in the world is for the personality of Nelson Mandella. The second line in the ranking was taken by a request for a biography of Paul Walker. People have often searched for information about the iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy S4.
The type of search queries, despite the general trend, may vary depending on the region and current events taking place in the world at the moment.
The most popular Google searches related to cinematography were "Iron Man" and "Man of Steel". Among the videos, people most often looked for Harlem Shake; there was also a large percentage of those wishing to receive data on the tragic events in Boston. Navigation queries are still popular - for example, Facebook, Youtube, Outlook, Google, etc. Often in search engines, people indicate the word free, which indicates a desire to get something for free. Also, Google often processes information on requests from Channel One, Sochi Olympics and the traffic police (accident reports).
