Nice counts, Mike, but do'nt forget Safesys citation about Google quotations:
"...- it gets good google numbers because of context in the same way "of the following" gets over 4 mill returns but has no value"
I fully agree too with another Safesys citation :"... ov and google are just tools - you need to interpret the results for each domain you are looking for rather than just take them as they stand."
But as a more general (provisional) conclusion, I would say that most specialists here seem to be "engineers" rather than "marketers". This means they too much trust in counts and data, and not enough in how true people would feel it. Indeed, when people go into search engines, it's because they have then no clear idea of the subject. After some trials, they start to fidelize into sites with rich content responding to their needs (and then then do'nt care at all about engines ranking). Most do'nt use search engines anymore (for this subject of course), and put URL-name into their "favorite sites" (or either type themselves these domain names into their browser). But to help this fidelization process, you need to provide a name easy and "funny" to remember, easy to type (not too long). The process to have a good ranking in search engines is time and energy consuming, but is up to your ingeniosity (mainly clever optimization of meta-tags, etc...). If you have no time, it's money consuming, but you will succeed too. Meanwhile, even if somebody succeed to put a bullshit (in content) at first rank, most demanding people will not go there a second time.
For short time sale of names, it is indeed good to think about "initial name traffic", but most of these names are "empty" (no soul). For long term "fidelity-names", you create yourself the traffic (like Yahoo, etc...) with first a "GOOD" name, and a content responding to consumers needs.
