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An anonymous reader writes "CNN has a story about Lycos and its 50 top "searched for" items of the year. After excluding "sex", "Dragonball" was #1, followed by "Kazaa", "tattoos", "Britney Spears", and the "NFL" (american football) rounding out the top 5. IRS was #7, and taxes acheived #14. "The Bible" is #21 followed by "Marijuana" at #22.
It appears that pop-stars, supermodels, computer games, sports, and september 11th related words heavily dominate the rest of the top 100. How about the biggest declines? Boy bands. nSync down from 36 to 163, and Back Street Boys tumble to 250 from 58. Lycos is hosting the top 100 results this year here with some commentary. Google also has their own comprehensive lists (and cool charts) as well."
You mean to tell me that dragonball has nothing to do with sex?
boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse
I would have shlopped Britney in there with the sex searches... There's no way she's number 4 without the slashdot crowd's celebrity nude searches.
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CNN has a story about Lycos and its 50 top "searched for items of the year.
Wow, are there people searching using Lycos?
Tat Tvam Asi
Wow, the world is much geekier than i thought.
however, when I want info about dragonball, I normally just search for '68000'.
The real news to me in this story is that Lycos still exists.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Seeing as how sex is #1, I'm glad that Google isn't giving up the huge amount of advertising bucks they're making by including ads from porn sites.
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I worked hard ALL year to get "Wild Donkey Bestialty Porn" to the top 10 search terms, only to have CNN factor it OUT of the statistics.
What google neglected to mention was the words the top search words were teamed up with: ...
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2. "shakira" with "will compiling my own kernel get me ass like that"
3. "winter olympics" with "I can see your privates through that luge outfit"
5. "avril lavigne" with "what if i am attracted to a singer that looks like my daughter"
6. "star wars" with "askjeeves: will the next one suck?"
7. "eminem" with "hyprocritical dirty white skinny guy"
8. "american idol" with "please god kill me I watched it "
11. "natalie portman" with "candid nipple pics"
13. "trillian" with "when will this actually work properly"
15. "neverwinter nights" with "linux client when ??"
20. "ikea" with "crazy swedes"
"nSync *down* from 36 to 163"...
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Damn, that must be a personal tradgedy for them
According to google's zeitgeist shtick, here , the ever wonderful "all your base are belong to us" is in the top twenty declining queries for 2002.
Maybe this cycle of "all your xxx" is finally coming to a close.
Prurient Content: We ignore pornographic, four-letter words and otherwise lewd queries, including names of decidedly adult film stars--unless such terms are driven by news events.
Why? Sexual content is no less valid than any other form of expression. It's obviously popular -- why isn't it represented equally in the study?
It's an obvious form of media bias -- a slur against the so-called "adult" industry. It's hipocracy -- children can see guns and violence at an early age, but people without clothes, or worse, humans having sex is "bad" for them.
I decry this media bias. It's clearly a conspiracy by the Storks and their Baby Delivery Monopoly.
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AC
How about the biggest declines? Boy bands. nSync down from 36 to 163, and Back Street Boys tumble to 250 from 58.
While this might look like good news, it's not. It only means that cultural space is being made for even stupider things.
Is it fascism yet?
Wow! Now this is a list of what's really importatnt in the world. I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
Proudly keeping sex on top by typing it in over and over and over again.
Wherever you go, there you are!
that's some lame markup language that a certain PHP forum system has, which supposedly makes it easier to insert tags, but it's just like HTML.
But it does have it benefits. With that, you can disable HTML but this limited language is parsable to (non-annoying) HTML.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
I think we need to proppel "wigs and hairpieces" into the top ten most searched. I suggest taking a few moments out of each day to search for some new head attire.
Now go forth and spread the word.
egg
You just had to mention Dragonball
"Let the fun begin Majin Buu"
"Heh heh heh heh heh heh"
"This can't be happening"
"Buu go Bang Bang"
"We have got to stop them"
"Ready!"
"Yes"
"HAH"
"Stay with it"
"Buu not scared"
"Let's take it to the next level"
"Looks like our friend is in need of a haircut"
I guess this proves I have no life, even by slashdot standards
I work in a children's library, which means that a lot of kids who are too poor to have internet at home come in to use ours. * A LOT * of them just search for Dragonball Z. Which means:
1.) I get bombarded with requests for how to spell strange names that sound like "Gokugeeta".
2.) These kids get pissed when the crapass websites they go to eventually open enough popups that the computer gives up and freezes.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Score one for the Religious Right!