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		wisty on Aug 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Ranking... IIRC, Google tends to have more "real" searches. A lot of Bing and Yahoo searches probably have the query string "Facebook" because people have it as the default engine, or are already on a Yahoo / MS property (like their web mail). A lot of these people will then type "Google" into the Bing / Yahoo search box, when they need to find something.

mason240 on Aug 20, 2013 [–]

A lot of Google searches come from the same place: having google as the default search engine and then typing in "facebook" rather than "facebook.com"

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