I was doing a keyword search for one of the sites I work on. The keyword I was checking on Overture (UK) was 'Dub*lin Car'. (I wanted to search for all search terms related to 'car hire in Dub*lin' and 'Car Rent*al in Dub*lin'. (* has been added to prevent the KW from being used here) Some of the results I saw were surprising! Someone had actually searched en.wikipedia.org with the keywords! Below is a sample of the searches for June 2006 on Overture UK. Searches >> Keyword 42 >> car dub*lin en.wikipedia.org hire site 32 >> bud*get car dub*lin en.wikipedia.org hire site 32 >> car dub*lin en.wikipedia.org ferry hire port site 31 >> air*port car dub*lin en.wikipedia.org irel*and rent*al site 31 >> air*port car dub*lin en.wikipedia.org nati*onal rent*al site 30 >> air*port car dub*lin en.wikipedia.org hire in site and so on... You can see what I mean by going to the following link http://inventory.uk.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ Does this actually mean people are searching for these wierd search terms ?? I don't get why anybody will be searching for these terms! Tis sounds crazy, but the way all this is going.. it seems people will start optimizing their sites for weird keyterms like 'blue widgets en.wikipedia.org good widgets site' !!!
Very strange indeed I can only suggest that it is an automated tool that might be looking for links from wikipedia for the suggested keywords. I think it is safe to say that REAL searchers are not using these keyphrases. It must be a bot of some kind. I also see some spam sites in the SERPs for things like ' car dub*lin en.wikipedia.org hire site uk' [* added]. Could be some sort of spamming attempt? Interesting.
These are strange keywords but search count is very low and you can guess its very low ratio when there are million of users searching in yahoo.They may mistype or anything like that.