Growth In Searches for Craigslist

10/3/2009    by John

Using the cool tools at Google Insights for Search you can see how searches for the term "Craigslist" have grown over the last 5 years.

This chart shows the number of US originated searches for the term "Craigslist". The y axis reflects how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers.





Note that the volume of searches seems to peak during the summer every year. Do people buy and sell more stuff in the summer?

The same tool also shows which US states search for Craigslist the most relative to all Google searches in that state.

The winner is Oregon.

To the right of the table of relative searches by state is a video which shows the search density for the term Craigslist. Each frame of the video is the average of four months of data. Craigslist slowly dominates by moving from mostly west coast, then ads the east coast and gradually fills in middle America. Today Utah stands alone as the lone state not using Craigslist.