8. Search

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Top 10 search itens. Source: Google Zeitgeist

Ignore the power of search at your peril. Some studies show that most traffic to a website begins with a query on a search engine.

But what are the most popular search terms? The king of online search Google has started to publish its most popular search terms for Ireland.

The five top search terms in Ireland for March 2006 are likely to raise an eyebrow or two. Funny pictures? Banking? Jessica Alba? The movie star with an impressive footprint on Google – the search engine clocks no fewer than 15.6 million references on web pages and some 93,000 images.

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