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Yahoo!: "Blog" Keyword Searches Up 10% Over Past Week
By Steve Rubel
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-01-24
The Yahoo! Buzz Index reports that blogging continues its march on the mainstream .........
"It's considered essential to consume a steady diet of weblogs to keep up with what's hot on the Web. Searches on "blogs" and "blogging" are still surging and both are up over 10% over the past week. We've seen political blogs, MP3 blogs, and food blogs all spike at various times over the last half-year."
Most top blog-related searches at Yahoo revolve around the tools necessary to become a bloger. Searches for "free blog," "create blog," and "blog templates" rank near the top of the blog charts, Yahoo! reports.
They also took a look at searches to see if they could divine some interesting blog trends.
More here.
About the Author:
Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 15 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as Vice President, Client Services at CooperKatz & Company, a mid-size PR firm in midtown New York City. Rubel evangelizes the application of Weblogs and RSS in traditional public relations campaigns.
He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.
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