Criteria of related searches

[seoug_2005]

Google shows "searches related to keyword" at the bottom of the SERPs for some queries. On what basis does Google shows this ? search volume ?

[StalkerB]

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU- Typed this out three times now and every time FF has crashed on me. Raging!

Anyway, one last try.

Yes, it's mostly search volume with a high QDF factor, I believe, stemming from - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/fresher-related-search-suggestions.html

It includes lessons learned from - http://www.google.com/squared

Check this out - http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/06/organizing-lists-of-related-searches_16.html

Also it's expanding into whole sites, along the lines of - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/discovering-pages-similar-to-ones-that.html

I did do more commentary on each of them the first couple of times I typed it out, but you can read can get the gist of it yourself

[seoug_2005]

Thanks a lot Barry for useful links.