eBay, Wal-Mart & Amazon Top Retailer Searches in December

From InternetRetailer.com:

The retailer name "ebay" was searched nearly 22.3 million times in December, with "walmart" coming in a distant second with almost 12.2 million searches and "amazon" third with nearly 7.5 million searches.

These were the top retailer names searched in December, 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 December with the number of searches for each, according to Nielsen Online:

1) ebay, 22,252,000
2) walmart, 12,163,000
3) amazon, 7,479,000
4) target, 6,889,000
5) best buy, 6,351,000
6) sears, 3,693,000
7) toys r us, 3,283,000
8) circuit city, 3,073,000
9) home depot, 2,890,000
10) netflix, 2,383,000
11) lowes, 2,327,000
12) kmart, 2,132,000
13) kohls, 2,072,000
14) costco, 2,001,000
15) qvc, 1,883,000
16) walgreens, 1,681,000
17) bed bath and beyond, 1,557,000
18) jcpenney, 1,393,000
19) itunes, 1,261,000
20) staples, 1,184,000