What do people search?
Search engines help people find web pages on a given subject. Millions and millions of searches are conducted each and every day on search engines by people all around the world.
What do people search? What are they looking for?
Following are some of the data provided by major search engines that’ll help us understand about what people actually search 
Google Zeitgeist - Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specific lists.
Yahoo Buzz Log - Buzz Log a good way to keep up with what’s going on, both online and in the real world. It is a service developed by Yahoo! to draw conclusions based on data taken from the Yahoo Search. Each week the Buzz Log is updated with the latest search data and correlations to various real world occurrences.
AOL Hot Searches - Latest hot search topics and current, most searched news on AOL Search. Find top current queries, or see those in the last hour, last day and within particular categories.
Ask IQ - See the most popular search terms each week based on millions of Ask.com searches.
Dogpile SearchSpy - Real-time data on terms searched on dogpile.com
Lycos Top50 - Weekly data of Top 50 searches on Lycos search network.
