Editing Encyclopedia:What Google liked

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[[Google]] is the most popular search engine and provides a valuable tool for Wikipedia to know what search terms people are using most frequently to find Wikipedia.  Most of these visits will be newcomers, seeing Wikipedia for the first time.  So it would be good for Wikipedia lovers to watch such statistics and to make sure those pages most frequently visited by new guests are in top shape.

A good impression can lead to a new user.  New users may add more content and knowledge to Wikipedia.

== Pages to Watch ==

*[[Wikipedia:Top 10 Google hits, A-K]]
*[[Wikipedia:Top 10 Google hits, L-Z]]

=== General Google Search Patterns and Trends ===

Google has a web page called [http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Google Zeitgeist] about search patterns and trends for the web in general.  This can tell us at Wikipedia what people are looking for.  Do we have content for them to find?  If not, it would be good for us to have as high priority the creating of such a listing, especially for the most recent top ten searches.

Ideally, the Google Zeitgeist stats should match the Google to Wikipedia links stats.

=== Google to Wikipedia links ===

Information like this can tell us
#What the most visited pages are for people coming from Google -- newcomer traffic.
#What people are searching for, that happens to be found at Wikipedia

Sample statistics from Fri, [[7 March]] [[2003]]:
(listing those articles with the highest number of visitors sent to us by [[Google]].)

*1150  [[Famous French people]]
*418  [[Mercury (element)]]
*402  [[Famous Spanish people]]
*372  [[Famous African-Americans]]
*368  [[Science fiction themes]]
*312  [[Recent celebrity deaths]]
*304  [[Biographical Listing]]
*268  [[World War II]]
*252  [[The Station nightclub fire]]
*230  [[Fred Rogers]]
*199  [[Leet]]
*198  [[Napoleonic Code]]
*171  [[U.S. Supreme Court]]
*161  [[George W. Bush]]
*155  [[Body piercing]]
*145  [[Native American]]
*145  [[English Civil War]]
*138  [[Elizabethan era]]
*130  [[Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act]]
*129  [[President of the United States]]
*125  [[Old school rap]]
*122  [[Prince Albert piercing]]
*119  [[Natural logarithm]]
*116  [[Discovery of the chemical elements]]
*112  [[U.S. presidential election, 1844]]
*111  [[List of United States Supreme Court cases]]
*109  [[Timeline of inventions]]
*109  [[Mark Antony]]
*109  [[1960s]]
*106  [[United States]]
*105  [[Protest song]]
*103  [[Nuclear weapon]]
*102  [[List of Greek mythological characters]]
*99  [[Mount Vesuvius]]
*98  [[Steamboat Willie]]
*97  [[Incest]]
*92  [[Nudism]]
*92  [[Definition of music]]
*91  [[Evolutionary timeline]]
*91  [[Egyptian language]]
*91  [[Cancer (constellation)]]
*89  [[Famous gay lesbian or bisexual people]]
*89  [[Battle of New Orleans]]
*88  [[Famous Swedish people]]
*88  [[Donald Rumsfeld]]
*87  [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack]]
*87  [[Roman Empire]]
*87  [[Famous women in history]]
*85  [[Terrorist incidents]]
*84  [[Big O notation]]
*82  [[World capital cities]]
*82  [[U.S. plan to invade Iraq]]
*80  [[Nudity]]
*78  [[Torture]]
*77  [[List of famous Italians]]
*77  [[Battle of Marston Moor]]
*77  [[Backus-Naur form]]
*74  [[Prime number]]
*74  [[List of places in London, England]]
*73  [[Medieval siege weaponry]]
*72  [[Maria Theresa of Austria]]
*70  [[Prime Minister of Canada]]
*70  [[Photographer]]
*70  [[Capital punishment]]
*69  [[United States Army]]
*69  [[Anti-globalization movement]]
*68  [[List of French monarchs]]
*68  [[Deity]]
*68  [[Aircraft carrier]]
*67  [[Wikipedia:Public domain resources]]
*67  [[Vulva]]
*67  [[Greek mythology]]

Some more recent stats would be nice.  The stats could be archived.

== See also ==
*[[Wikipedia:Awareness statistics]]
*[[Wikipedia:Articles which are number one for one word Google searches]]

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