Search queries are one of the top secret weapon for all search engines. Many search engines(ex: AOL) even sell their search queries to top internet marketers. In this article, i will give you some useful links where you can get all these top search queries of different search engines for free. From any webmaster point of view it is always important to know what people are searching for in search engines.

The statistics might not be up to date for all the search engines but this will be a good heads up if you are involved in historical keyword research.

1. Google Hot Trends (the original Google Zeitgeist for Google.com was replaced by Google Hot Trends).This will show top 100 keywords (based on search amount) per day for United States.
2. Yahoo! Buzz Top Search Queries For Yahoo! Search Engine
3. American Online Limited aka AOL Hot Search Querie (Top 10 search queries in 9 different catagories)
4. Ask.com Top Search Queries
5. Dogpile Top Search Queries (Filtered and Unfiltered)
6. Lycos Top 50 Search Queries (Latest)

One thing you will notice when you go through all these top query trends is that most of the top search queries are related to multimedia resources like movies, celebrities or TV shows. Does this mean, to get large amount of traffic, we should start writing on topics that cover media related keywords?