Russian Internet



One of the most popular search engines in Russia remains "Yandex". Monthly number of page views is more than 3 billion times, i.e. every day the search engine processed more than 100 million queries. It is worth noting that more than half of all users of a search engine is concentrated in 10 major cities in Russia (Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Voronezh, Rostov-on-don, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Omsk, Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk). The average number of queries per user is 6-7 times per session of use of a search engine until you select the desired result.

The most popular queries are the same formulation and have the same spelling. Most people are searching for information associated with social networks (for example, "Vkontakte" or "Odnoklassniki"). The list of the most popular requests of "Yandex" includes the phrase "free download", "watch online", "games for free", "movies free", "download songs", "music download".

Are popular and geographic queries, for example, "Saint Petersburg", "Moscow", "Moscow". Most popular navigational queries on search sites with a specific location or category (for example, mail.ru or "online store"). Sometimes users are looking for work ("job search"), and reference information ("salad recipes").

The same statistics for the Russian Internet search engine is Google, which, however, is more popular abroad.
Detailed statistics of search queries can be obtained on the websites of popular search engines.


Foreign online



One of the most popular searches for 2013 in the world refers to the person of Nelson Mandela. Second place in the ranking took the request about the biography of Paul Walker. Often people looking for information about iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy S4.
Type search queries, despite the General trend may vary depending on the region and current events that are happening in the world at the moment.


The most popular request Google related to cinema, became the "Iron man" and "man of steel". Among the videos people are most often searched for Harlem Shake; there was also a large percentage of people wishing to obtain information about the tragic events in Boston. Still popular navigational queries – for example, Facebook, Youtube, Outlook, Google, etc. Frequently in the search engines people point to the word free, which indicates the desire to obtain something for free. Google often treats information requests "channel", "Sochi Olympics" and "traffic" (accident reports).