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Old 08-15-2005, 08:25 PM  
NetRodent
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Maybe... There are two things to keep in mind when looking at figures from Overture:

1. Overture's "official" variation on the keyword is not necessarily the correct one. Overture groups the singular, plural and some misspellings of a word together. Just because "blue banana" has 1758 searches, doesn't mean 1758 people searched for "blue banana". Some may have searched for "Bleu Banana" or "blue bananas" or "bananas blue".

2. Some keywords have artificially inflated numbers based hardcoded search links from a high traffic site, a third party monitoring the relative bid positions on a keyword, or someone trying scam overture or a bidder.
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