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December 19, 2005
List fanatics love the last few weeks of every calendar year. Search engine freaks are no exception, because that's when engines release their top searches of that year.
Yahoo and Lycos are the first to make their announcements. Following are their Top 10 searches of 2005. (Please check out the sites too, because they sub-categorize searches and show some very interesting data.)
- Britney Spears
- 50 Cent
- Cartoon Network
- Mariah Carey
- Green Day
- Jessica Simpson
- Paris Hilton
- Eminem
- Ciara
- Lindsay Lohan
What did you expect? "How to be a good citizen"? "Best foreign films"? Grow up.
- Paris Hilton
- Pamela Anderson
- Britney Spears
- Poker
- Dragonball
- Jennifer Lopez
- WWE
- Pokemon
- Playstation
- Hurricane Katrina
Just to show you how far we've (not) come in six years, following are the Top 10 Lycos searches for 1999. The more things change...
- Pokemon
- Britney Spears
- WWF
- Dragonball Z
- Pamela Anderson
- Star Wars
- Backstreet Boys
- Poetry
- Halloween
- Blair Witch Project
That's right. A full 50% of the top 10 terms from 1999 are still in the top 10 six years later. (This assumes we can call [WWF] and [WWE] the same term. If not, I'm afraid I'll have to hit you with a folding chair.)
FYI, [Y2K] was #20 in CY99.
I'm hoping that Google Zeitgeist will release some interesting lists in the next week or so as well. "Stay tuned," as they said long, long ago.
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posted by Erik Dafforn at December 19, 2005 10:37 PM
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