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Yahoos Average Search Length is 2.6 Words and Growing…

August 7th, 2006 by James Omdahl


That was a little fin fact from Yahoos Tim Meyer here at the SES conference. Also, he said that people are not really using natural language to search since they have had a poor experience in the past.

What does this all mean? Basically, the long tail is going to get longer as people and search engines get used to working together. Big implications for you as an affiliate marketer.

Alright - off to the next session. I would be blogging more but for some reason there is no wireless access in the conference rooms (in the middle of Silicon Valley no less).

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