This Infographic put out by SEOBook.com demonstrates that by the innovations of Google Search over the years, they have essentially killed long-tail search. Not that one still shouldn’t shoot for those long-tail key phrases to target but you will certainly see that they have worked hard to try to help searchers with long-tail keyword searches, mis-spellings and the like.
How Google Killed the Longtail
by David Wallace | Dec 1, 2011