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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 found a [URL=http://zeitgeistw3.cjb.net]Zeitgeist W3[/URL] which implements the qualities described in this article. Hope this helps!
"The lesson to be learned is not to take the comments on slashdot too literally." --Vinnie Falco, BearShare
If all goes well... we should see something like this:
Sex - Find It
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.
Xavodim.com
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
And subsequent peaks on the Mondays that followed. I guess we feel the most guilt on Mondays and the least on Fridays.
-Cyc
/.'s 10 Millionth
Wow, the world is much geekier than i thought.
however, when I want info about dragonball, I normally just search for '68000'.
It's a pretty sad state of affairs when spiderman and shakira are the most pressing issues people want to research on the internet.
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 think these types of searches would actually be more interesting to see categorized than the others. What sick and twisted things are people searching for? I wonder if this is categorized anywhere?
Also to be noted in the google stats is Mac's broke 5% of the total searches for the first time since google started publishing stats. They omitted this from the year end results, but if you check the archives you can see this.
I live in a giant bucket.
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"...
;)
Damn, that must be a personal tradgedy for them
Those guys will do anything for attention
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Ask Jeeves also posted year-end search trends, but it picked different information to highlight than either Lycos or Google.
Yearly: frequent searches, news-related searches, health, CEO scandals, music artists, vacation destinations, products and brands.
For each of the top 5 news stories, the year-end page includes several popular questions related to the news. For example:
2. September 11th Memorial
-- How many people died on September 11, 2001?
-- Is 9-11 a holiday?
-- What events are taking place on September 11, 2002?
Weekly: frequent searches, general advancing queries, movies, and news.
Some of the advancing queries are questions ("What is Kwanzaa?") and some are searches ("Saint Nicholas"), but I don't know whether that difference reflects actual differences in the way people search on aj.com for different types of information.
The shareholder is always right.
This is kinda interesting, although I've seen this before. Heh, FTP is more popular that Microsoft too :) I wonder if this type of thing scares Microsoft...
Google Top Technology Searches:
1. mp3
2. sms
3. winzip
4. linux
5. ftp
6. dell
7. xbox
8. realplayer
9. microsoft
10. java
Or is this old news?
a world in progress...
..is because it's main user base is not totally geeky.
anyone totally geeky would know to use google..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
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
Interesting that Prom Dresses (39) is followed directly by Anorexia (40).
Coincidence?
Probably.
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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?
They can't really explain it properly on Lycos, but Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-Feng was ranked #20 on the Lycos search charts over the last year. Personally i have never heard of him, and i think the majority of the non asian people here too. Makes you figure how much asian sites and users make up the whole of the internet while we (read: I) surf only those pages with our western fonts.
Proudly keeping sex on top by typing it in over and over and over again.
Wherever you go, there you are!
I don't even recognize a lot of those "fastest growing" searches. "shakira"? "avril"? "las ketchup"? "gareth"? Is there some secret underground culture that happens to be really popular that people aren't telling me about? Are these all things related to TV? I'm so confused.
Yahoo! gathers these same search statistics on a weekly basis. You can check it out here. They've also compiled the total 2002 results here. Of course, their results aren't really much different from everyone elses.
My initial reacion was, "No Lord of the Rings?" I guess Orlando Bloom is part of that. or maybe Ring fans don't do searches. They probably just have The One Ring.Net already bookmarked.
Or maybe Lycos isn;t that good of an indicator of Web trends. (I haven't been to Lycos for about 5 years.)
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"First things first -- but not necessarily in that order"
-- The Doctor, "Doctor
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 hate to say it, but this is completely useless since they stripped out anything objectionable. I didn't see porn or sex or anything relating to sex on there at all. This is like the "sanitized for TV" version of the stats, which in my mind, aren't really stats at all.
The KCC is the Zen Master guru of Active Directory. It dynamically computed the best topology for my Active Directory. It does not bother me that I have 512 - T1 links for my WAN and that I still have AD replication failures. Sure my event log fills up with undecipherable errors, so what? The bottom line is, I am on the bleeding edge at all times. I am fully committed to this platform, no matter how much it pains my user base.
http://saveie6.com/
Seeing the high scoring searches may give a gloomy outlook towards the future of civilization but don't worry. Only stupid people would be using lycos and that skews the results a bit. Kind of like how the police take their seatbelt usage samples /at the roadblocks/ and claim their efforts increase seatbelt usage.
Simple reasoning that they didn't "feel the need to list" sex. "Kazaa".
Same thing, right? Well, at least I see them as such. Mmm... pr0n.
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Time to really start hitting google for Linus, CMdrTaco and others, so next year one of them ends up in the top 10 list.
StarTux
You know its weird, google has so much more traffic then Lycos, and they are the ones who coined the term 'Zeitgeist' to refer to perotic web-search stats reports. (I.e the 'Google Zeitgeist'). In fact, Google just released their Zeitgeist for 2k2 a couple days ago, but I've been seeing the Lycos thing all over the place.
I guess Terra-Lycos, being a true media company rather then search-only knows how to play the PR game better. Ah well.
Ah well. Typing the term 'zeitgeist' over and over has really messed with my head...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
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
There should be a Slashdot zeitgeist listing the most common words (and sequences of two or more words, using some weird statistical algorithm possibly mentioning 'Markov chains' although I have no idea what they are) appearing in comments.
(Maybe with long identical sequences removed to reduce the weighting given to multiple identical troll postings.)
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Wow, the world is much geekier than i thought.
They were searching for the the Anime "DragonBall Z" Which is about little kids figiting and stuff.
So you were wrong, the world is much, much, more geeky then you figured...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
What about sites that are located in internet2. Wasnt that supposed have been created by the major research universities as a result of the commercialism of the "Regular" internet?
http://www.internet2.edu/
Many universities now have their own internal search engines that their students connect to... Many of those searches are not factored in these results either.
Many users go directly to their most used sites like cnn.com or espn.com and search for what they want there. Those results may not be factored in to the google or lycos results...
Then comes places like AOL that still have millions of users that do searches from within the AOL client which are not factored in either...
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Time is on my side
I knew a guy at work who would usualy go to google, type in [company-name] and then hit the first link, rather then typing [company-name].com
I also used to get lots of refers from people searching for "autopr0n" on google, although weirdly enough autopr0n.com actualy dosn't show up untill the 4th page on a search for autopr0n. The first two links are too my slashdot and kuro5hin user info pages, followed by a bunch of links of people talking about my page... it's really weird.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Chu Mei-Feng isn't a guy, it's a woman. A taiwanese Politictian who had a huge sex scandal in Taiwan.
.mpg files of her getting fucked.
Basically she was the 'girlfriend' you could say of a high-ranking politico who helped her get into the equivalent of congress. (most Americans would have balked, at this point, but in Taiwan it was kosher)
Anyway, he got her a house, and she got lonely so she invited a friend to live with her. Except, her friend ended up putting video cameras in her bedroom and recorded her having sex with lots of different guys. Then released the VCDs.
So, when people searched for "Chu Mei-Feng" they weren't looking for info on the Taiwan-China relations (CMF was pro-unification, fyi), but rather they were looking for
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
This seems to be a source of info on Kwanzaa, for all you non-Americans out there. Seems to be some Christmas alternative thing.
We Build Beautiful Websites
A sign of the times indeed.
. html
I've been thinking of getting one and looking for insipiration. The tree of life from Celtic/Norse mythology is top of the list so far for a number of reasons.
Favourite design so far is:
http://www.kelticdesigns.com/Pages/Treeprint
Though I haven't yet asked permission from the artist.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
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
Google search traffic follows the Las Ketchup craze as it circles the globe. See graph.
Lyrics: Asereje ja de je de jebe tude jebere sebiunouba majabi an de bugui an de buididipi
No... it isn't Spanish... it's gibberish. This little ditty has been referred to as the new Macarena. Do we really need ANOTHER macarena?
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
Funny Lycos doesn't tell you HOW many have actually search... Who uses Lycos anymore? Perhaps its just CowboyNeil and Commander Taco (Last year it was just CowboyNeil, so its up 200%!)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
What's the fascination with Dragonball? What is it anways? -- a television show, a movie, an electronics device, or something else? Please somebody explain why it's so popular. The curiosity is killing me. Does the Lycos crowd know something that we don't, or was the Dragonball movie advertised on the website all year long?
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.
Just a thought on a cool Slashcode idea... Track trends on /.! The google graph for the "Las Ketchup" craze has inspired me... Could we track the first occurances, and subsequent uptake/getting-oldness of various /. trends? The first "first post!!!", the height of goatse-ism, the birth of "IN SOVIET RUSSIA"?
:-)
I'd be amused
In Soviet Russia, sig types you!
...can be found on my site, http://metabuzz.kushaldave.com. There's also a tool that puts up the different lists side-by-side, though it's a bit broken at the moment. I know self-promotion is always suspect, but I think people interested in things like Zeitgeist will find the list useful.
What is the number 1 term, queryed by the Lycos search engine?
A:
"Google.com"
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
On lycos's list, Las Vegas (#11) is the only city to be listed (funnily enough, between Pam Anderson and Anna Kournikova).
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
I think I found the stuff on WinMX, personaly.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
When the top 100 searches on a search engine have mostly to do with entertainment (I.E. Spears, Football, Linkin Park, etc.)
If I was religious, I'd pray for the state of our people. What a horribly depressing top 100 list. Have we got nothing else to think about besides damned Brittany?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
How about the biggest declines? Boy bands. nSync down from 36 to 163, and Back Street Boys tumble to 250 from 58.
Well, thank god for that. I don't know how much more of this "dirty pop" crap I can take.
On another note, people actually use Lycos? Lycos, what's that? Isn't that a dog or something?
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
As I was reading the Google Zeitgeist I came across a link to the various logos that Google has used during various holidays and events throughout the years. I didn't realize how many there were.
Check it out:
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
I know you are joking, but to seriously answer, I would bet the reason they drop adult topics, etc, is they would skew the results into oblivion :0).
Does anybody know what happened to the browser stats on google?
[wild conspiracy theory]
Did MS pay them to leave this stats out because they could unveil some increase in mozilla usage?
[/wild conspiracy theory]
Look at the number 2 UK search - Big Brother. I guess they've noticed that they can't pick their nose in public without it being taped.
I like DBZ, oddly enough, for one of the things I also like about Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Deep Space 9--and one of the major reasons why I don't really like Dragonlance anymore.
DBZ is a series of long stores of indefinite length; only rarely are the episodes self-contained, and the characters have a tendency to change, alter alliegences, and have some real development.
Sure, it's slanted towards the main hero (Goku always saves the day--even when he's dead) and the "fighting" has gotten to an unbelievable level, but it's got a far better episode-to-episode story than any other cartoon on the American airwaves.
you know what, fuck you and your stupid find your sex gateway. You and it are the two stupidest things on the internet.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley