Saturday, August 18, 2007

Top Stock Symbol Searches on Search Engines

This is a list of the Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks sorted in order of stock symbol searches according to Overture. Obviously, some of the search numbers will be meaningless from a financial standpoint, such as for Caterpillar (CAT). It is also uncertain whether someone who types in the symbol for International Business Machines (IBM) is looking for info on the company or the stock. Whereas, a search for MSFT is most likely a search for the Microsoft (MSFT) stock and INTC is a search for Intel (INTC) stock.

CATERPILLAR INC (CAT) 575,429
CITIGROUP INC (C) 325,419
AT&T INC. (T) 211,493
INTL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM) 147,813
ALCOA INC (AA) 118,799
GEN ELECTRIC CO (GE) 81,549
GEN MOTORS (GM) 76,260
ALTRIA GROUP INC (MO) 50,240
BOEING CO (BA) 44,393
AMER INTL GROUP INC (AIG) 41,256
MICROSOFT CP (MSFT) 41,175
DU PONT (DD) 35,092
HOME DEPOT INC (HD) 27,702
INTEL CP (INTC) 26,481
WALT DISNEY (DIS) 20,394
PROCTER GAMBLE CO (PG) 18,976
COCA COLA CO THE (KO) 18,679
EXXON MOBIL CP (XOM) 15,542
3M COMPANY (MMM) 13,630
PFIZER INC (PFE) 13,331
HEWLETT PACKARD CO (HPQ) 11,478
WAL MART STORES (WMT) 10,882
MCDONALDS CP (MCD) 9,236
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON (JNJ) 8,544
HONEYWELL INTL INC (HON) 8,413
JP MORGAN CHASE CO (JPM) 7,473
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS (VZ) 7,246
MERCK CO INC (MRK) 6,244
UNITED TECH (UTX) 3,219
AMER EXPRESS INC (AXP) 1,727

By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

2 comments:

Mark said...

Hi, where did you pull this data from or is there a website where you could see this via Overture? thanks

Stockerblog said...

Here is where I got the info from. Check it out. You can get all kinds of interesting info about popularity of search topics.

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/