Google Keyword Planner issue

Hi,

For some popular websites, when checked on google keyword planner it shows huge number of searches. Do people really search for that particular keyword of the famous website instead key-ed in direct on the browser address bar?

Example:

facebook

monthly average search 45mil+.

This might be extreme example but even from some other popular website, i notice monthly average search for exact domain keyword in millions..

Reason why i wondering is, by norm i assume for famous websites, we never search but instead type the name direct in the address bar. am i missing something?

shed some light please...

Still some people know address bar to use google only, they use google for everything. so yea it has good searches without any doubt

those digits are estimates.. i'm pretty sure chrome users use their address bar frequently to search terms.

cordovalandry said:

Still some people know address bar to use google only, they use google for everything. so yea it has good searches without any doubt

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i thought about that possibility too... Google facebook when i know its facebook.com? sounds weird though, for me at least..

ThatK1dB said:

those digits are estimates.. i'm pretty sure chrome users use their address bar frequently to search terms.

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noted that the figure is just an estimation but the point is the word being searched.. which make me hard to believe it

I've 'looked over the shoulder' of plenty of people (mostly >50 year old) as I've been talking them through something, and you'd be surprised at quite how many type in the name of the website they're looking for into the Google searchbox - exactly as you say, Facebook, or Amazon, or Wikipedia, or whatever it is.

Or, if they're using chrome, just typing 'facebook' in the address bar will cause a search.

So - I can indeed see why there's a very large volume of searches for those popular site names.

See Google trends - http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q
People have searched for queries like facebook, youtube and even google on google.

I noticed that with many friends: people are too lazy to type in the full domainname + ending. So they just use google and their autocompletion.