What are the most common search terms?

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According to one of my favorite keyword research sites, Wordtracker (which I write about at length in my Google book too), the twenty-five most commonly used search phrases in the last 60 days are:

Pretty amazing what people seek online, isn't it? Just when we thought that the Internet was going to spread enlightenment and help reinvent journalism, customer/business communications, and more, it turns out that we're all looking for the same thing that our cavemen ancestors sought: love and intimacy, or at least a good time tonight.

Sadly, it also says a lot about the demographic of searches that there are only two men in this top twenty-five list (Enimem and 50 cent, the stage names of two rappers), but there are a bunch of women who are frequently in the gossip columns: Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Carmen Electra, Jenna Jameson, and Pamela Anderson. It's all about the cult of celebrity (and if you don't know what I'm talking about, you should read Daniel Boorstin's provocative book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America).

Not all is lost, however, when poetry, games, dogs and mapquest show up in this top twenty-five list too, I suppose. Still...