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Search Engines as Search Terms google . yahoo . ebay . hotmail . yahoo.com . mapquest . search engines When I look at the list of the top search terms each week, I always find it interesting that search engines and well known web sites are among the top items which people search for These well known names, search engines, and web sites seem to make the top 20 list each week: google ebay yahoo paris hilton health jokes mapquest yahoo.com games dictionary britney spears search engines pamela anderson hotmail anime lyrics carmen electra maps I can understand the need to search for some people by name, so the paris hilton, britney spears, pamela anderson, and carmen electra listings make sense but what I don't understand at all is ... why do people search for google, search for yahoo, for yahoo.com, for ebay, and for mapquest? If you have been to google.com one time, don;t you remember that it is at www.google.com? Ebay has always been at http://www.ebay.com/ and I don't see a reason for it to move any time soon. Mapquest, the provider of online maps and a service for driving directions has been at www.mapquest.com for many years and Yahoo! Inc is sticking with http://www.yahoo.com/ as far as I can tell and Hotmail also seems to be staying put at http://www.hotmail.com/ Part of the reason for this might be that many people type addresses of search engine web sites into the search box instead of the putting a search engine address in the address bar. Another reason might have to do with the way many people set up a default search using their favorite search engines and then when they mis-type an address into the address bar, it searches using the default search engine. Whatever the reason, the problem is not going away and I suspect we will see google, yahoo, ebay, hotmail, yahoo.com, mapquest, and search engines high ranking in search results for many years to come.