Most Used Keywords In Image Search

Posted on 2/23/2011 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

Picnache.com has put together a list of the top 1000 keywords used by customers to search for stock photos in the last 6 months to 2 years. This dataset was compiled from about 500,000 searches and prioritized according to which words were used most frequently.

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Jose Pelaez Posted Feb 24, 2011
I wonder about the methodology. Within the first couple hundred words are: fish fossil (need a lot of these) meghanath (alternately spelled meghnath, obscure character from Indian mythology) kerviel (French trader convicted of fraud) Sociedad Central de Cervejas (brewery Portugal) leontopolis (city in ancient Lower Egypt) zxdax (no result in Google). I didn't notice "retirement" or "senior citizen" in the top results. "Winnipeg" appears in approximately 57th place, ahead of London, Rome, NYC, Shanghai, and even Toronto.

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