May 15, 2008 Posted | 0 comments

Education and Web Searches: Schools Are Important to Everyone, I Promise!

Joanne Jacobs linked today to a post about the top 15 web searches conducted by children. The results are as follows:

1. Games
2. Dogs
3. Animals
4. Civil War
5. George Washington
6. Holocaust
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Multiplication
9. Math Games
10. Weather
11. Frogs
12. Fractions
13. Planets
14. Sharks
15. Plants

The results were tracked by Thinkronize, the developers behind netTrekker d.i., which is a safe educational search engine.

One need not be an AERAcrat to realize that a “safe educational search engine” presents only search interests in a relatively closed system.

I’m a bit bothered that dogs have trumped cats yet again - Pia is rightly miffed - but I’ll save that for another day.

What’s most interesting is what the general population searches for regarding “school” terms.

In website consulting/design, one needs a handle on common keywords in one’s niche to craft/maintain a website that aligns, to some degree, with consumer interest. We nerdlings call this Search Engine Optimization. Several sites monitor keyword frequency in internet searches.

Below are the results for “school” from one of the sites I use frequently - keep this in mind when we read over the next few months how important schools and education are to both political candidates and the voters who support them.

The children are our future!

Keyword Suggestion Searches / month
1. high school musical 232,500
2. school 103,800
3. big tits at school 85,500
4. school girl 70,620
5. school girls 58,680
6. high school musical 2 46,890
7. high school graduation 46,170
8. school sex 44,940
9. school uniforms 36,900
10. high school 32,310
11. hentai school 32,280
12. high school girls 29,160
13. high school sex 25,560
14. school girl sex 24,810
15. High school musical 24,270

So, what are you searching for? Unfortunately, the odds dictate that it ain’t fractions or Abe Lincoln.

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