Web Zeitgeist

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday December 15, 2002 @09:32AM from the meta-surfing dept.

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."

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Re:What google neglected to mention... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-15 10:29 · Score: 1, Troll

The offensive references to Shakira, Avril Lavigne, and Natalie Portman in the parent post, and the fact that this silly post got modded up to 5 reflect the kind of juvenile, sexist attitudes that are far too prevalent among Slashdot readers. Don't forget that many people in the tech industry are women, and we do not appreciate schoolby attempts at humor.
BTW, this is offtopic, but Mr. Malda recently mentioned in a Journal comment that Slashdot has too many "+5, Funny" comments. I agree with this sentiment, and I do not appreciate seeing frivolous junk like the parent comment when reading at 4 or 5. I propose that Slashcode be modified so that the highest a comment can be rated is 3. This would free up a lot of mod points for other uses, would reduce the number of users who make dumb jokes to try to gain karma, and would spare those of us who prefer to read at higher threshholds from having to skim over a bunch of stupid comments.
-jen