The 37th annual Earth Day saw people around the world take part in the day's festivities to help better our environment. Hitwise has taken a closer look at the top websites that received traffic from the term "earth day" for the week ending April 22, 2006. The top website was Earthday.net capturing 17 percent of visits from the term, followed by Earthsite.org and Kaboose.com. The top search terms sending visits to the Environmental Protection Agency website (www.epa.gov) included "global warming," "epa," "recycling" and "earth day" ranked as eighth most popular term driving visits.
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