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I’ll admit it, I am a search addict. I search all day long morning, noon and night; on the move on my mobile, at home and at work.

Each day, 7 days a week, I spend no less than 4 hours conducting well over 150 queries, searching and scanning search engine result pages 2, 3, 4 even 10 pages deep. Organic results, I can’t get enough of them.  Descriptions, domains, URLs, Titles; I’m sick and obsessed with them. I search at least 4 different search engines , 6 social media and bookmarking sites, 3 social news sites, 2 blog search engines and 3 comparison shopping sites every day. Web, images, video, books, you name it, I search it.

I search until my eyes hurt and are bloodshot, ’til I have a headache, my fingers hurt, my arms tingle with pins and needles, my elbows are sore and my legs feel numb. Then I search more, almost until I forget to go to the bathroom.

I search until my laptop crashes. I pull up my other computer and search until I’m hungry, skip eating until I can stand it no longer and then search with food falling out of my mouth. I wake up in the middle of the night, out of nowhere in cold sweats with great vim and vigor, to search something never searched before, and I squint in the dark quiet of the night at search results until my body shuts me down again. I go late to personal events so that I can search more. I miss important events, family milestone events, to search more.

I simply cannot get off this search thing. Why? Because it’s everywhere and I’m an addict.

I don’t want to give it up. I can’t give it up; I LOVE it. Why? Because it helps me live and keeps me vital. What does the addiction help me with and why is it so powerful?

• I conduct research on almost any subject and learn more to become well-informed.
• I discover products and services.
• I uncover good deals and better prices.
• I connect with new businesses and business solutions.
• I generate new business.
• I meet new people.
• I identify personal entertainment solutions.
• I decide which tools are most refined and best to feed my addiction.
• I learn more about my client needs.
• I understand more about competitive search niches.
• I become a better search marketer.
• I feed my need for search and get my fix.

I will never give up this wonderful addiction. Sometimes it’s painful and causes hurt and affliction, but it’s too good and too powerful and keeps me too happy to let it go. I will never give it up. I am search addict.

I wonder who else is an addict? And, how do you satisfy your addiction to search?

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