The 2008 Olympics in Search
2008 Olympics in Beijing are here.
Here’s how the search engines note it:
The New Search Patterns
As Olympic games began, search for olympics spiked!
Here’s Google Insights data. You can observe searches which increased 10 fold:
And here’ Yahoo Buzz Index.
It’s clear that events impact search and rankings as well. If an event gets coverage, thousands of webmasters and bloggers link to articles and sites, impacting Google search positions.
Google Keyword tool indicated 1,830,000 average searches for Olympics, and olympics.org holds #1 in natural search results. Google also shows medal information for keyword “olympics”
China got a double lead against the contenders!
Leading search publications also picked Olympics and honored it a post:
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