Consumers searched the term “ebay” nearly 17.7 million times in February, making the online auctioneer and merchant far and away the most searched-for retail name during the month. The term “walmart” came in second with about 5.9 million searches and “amazon” was third with more than 4.3 million.
These were the top retailer names searched for in February, according to data provided to Internet Retailer from Nielsen Online’s MegaView Search Custom Data. The MegaView Search data is based on tallies from 58 representative search engines.
Following are the top 20 retailer names searched in February with the number of searches for each, according to Nielsen Online:
1) ebay, 17,697,000
2) walmart, 5,886,000
3) amazon, 4,348,000
4) target, 3,307,000
5) best buy, 2,757,000
6) netflix, 2,647,000
7) home depot, 2,475,000
8) circuit city, 1,817,000
9) sears, 1,637,000
10) costco, 1,245,000
11) walgreens, 1,132,000
12) macys, 1,092,000
13) bed bath and beyond, 1,071,000
14) jcpenney, 985,000
15) kmart, 980,000
16) staples, 929,000
17) office depot, 869,000
18) kohls, 864,000
19) barnes and noble, 797,000
20) itunes, 756,000
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