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LYCOS ANNOUNCES
MOST SEARCHED WORDS
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Source Business Wire
[ December 17th 2001 ]
The Lycos
50 Announces the Most Popular Search Terms of
2001 and the Ones to Watch in 2002 Osama bin Laden
and Britney Spears, Web's Most Wanted Man and
Woman; N Sync is Top Band for Second Straight
Year.
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Lycos, the largest global Internet network, today
announced The Lycos 50's eagerly anticipated top
50 search terms for the year 2001. The Lycos 50
is a weekly authoritative list of the most popular
people, places and things users are searching
for online. The Lycos 50 2001 year-end list is
based on user searches from January 1 through
November 25, 2001.
"The
biggest trend of 2001 was the impact of September
11 on Internet searches," said Aaron Schatz, writer
of The Lycos 50. "Three of the top 10 items on
this year's list are directly related to September
11. The terrorist attacks on America brought a
whole host of new items onto The Lycos 50 and
changed the way Americans use the Internet. The
Web became a vital source of information and communication
following Sept. 11 and The Lycos 50 was able to
give us an immediate pulse on the world."
In 2000,
Osama bin Laden received very few searches. "This
year, bin Laden searches went up roughly 26,250
percent," Schatz added. "Every 7.5 hours since
Sept. 11, as many people searched for bin Laden
as searched for him in all of 2000. But it was
Nostradamus who received more searches in the
week ending Sept. 15 than any other subject received
in any one week since we began the list over two
years ago."
Surprisingly,
the biggest topic of the year with Web users was
not September 11-related. The number one most
searched term for 2001 was Dragonball, the Japanese
cartoon show, which most adults have never heard
of. "Dragonball continues to be wildly popular
on the Internet with teens and college-age Japanese
animation buffs," Schatz says. "In 2001, Dragonball
received twice as many searches as last year's
most searched item, Britney Spears." Angelina
Jolie came in at number 7 on the Lycos Top Ten
Women searched for in 2001.
For
a complete list of The Lycos 50 top 50 search
terms of 2001, and for in-depth commentary of
The Lycos 50 2001 Report, go to http://50.lycos.com
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