I have been using google’s search history on and off (mostly on) since Nov 2005. Since then I’ve logged 15,892 searches, quite impressive. Google ever so kindly provides nice data on my search history and I thought I’d share.

Top sites

1. en.wikipedia.org
2. www.washington.edu
3. www.apple.com
4. www.w3schools.com
5. digg.com
6. www.google.com
7. sports.espn.go.com
8. www.kappaalphaorder.org
9. developer.apple.com
10. www.php.net

Interesting. Wikipedia is on top because whenever I want to learn anything about anything I type “the_thing wiki” as a google search. This is because Google’s search is a lot faster than Wikipedia’s own search and putting “wiki” in the search string makes the wikipedia result the first (pagerank ftw). Washington.edu makes sense because I do “site:washington.edu” searchs a lot. Apple.com and developer.apple.com results top the 10 because instead of typing in apple.com/store I usually just google apple store and I did this quite a bit while I was looking t by my Mac and accessories the developer site was strictly for the ADC discount that I got on my Mac. W3schools and php.net are to serve my developer needs. I use google to search Digg stories I’ve seen because google’s search is much faster and more accurate that digg’s horrible search engine. ESPN is up there because I look up sports standings and scores all the time. The last result I haven’t mentioned is www.kappaalphaorder.org. The KA website is poorly structured and it is hard to find what I want so usually I just search “site:kappaalphaorder.org term_here”.
I find it very interesting that a large percentages of my google searches are very targeted (at apple, wikipedia, digg, kappa alpha order and the university of washington in particular) because the sites themselves are poorly structured or have bad built in searches. But alas, Google to the rescue!