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Top Searches of 2005

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Yahoo! has compiled a list of the top ten search results of 2005, which should be fairly interesting, considering all the war, disaasters, congressional scandals, technology breakthroughs, and re-runs of American Idol this year has enjoyed. Over at ArsTechnica, Ken "Caesar" Fisher took at look at Yahoo!s (Yahoos? Yahoo!'s?) results, and provides some insightful commmentary.

Are you ready for the number one search term of 2005?

You, in back, shuddap! No, it's not Iraq. It's not health care, it's not anything of weighty importance. It's not even Xbox 360. No, dear friends, it's Britney Spears. This, good gentleman and gentleladies, is the American dream: take two parts lackluster talent, three tablespoons of whiney, bitchy crap, add a freeloader for a husband, an ounce of weed, stir in a baby, and you have the most sought-after thing the 'net has to offer. Search me baby, one more time takes the top spot in web searches, the top spot in video searches, but slips to number three behind the buxom Jessica Simpson (#2) and vacuous shell of Paris Hilton (#3) in the images category.

In a perfect example of what is wrong with America, Natalee Halloway ranks above Afghanistan and Hurricaine Katrina, and right behind the Michael Jackson Trial in news searches. If you'd like to see how far we've, uh, progressed in a year, Yahoo! also has a link to the top searches of 2004, proving once and for all that Americans are obsessed with vacuous media whores and reality television.

So what were you searching for in 2005?

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Sophie_Sass

Sophie_Sass

Los Angeles, CA
October 2003

DEC 19, 2005 10:43 PM

VACUOUS!

Sophie_Sass

Sophie_Sass

Los Angeles, CA
October 2003

DEC 19, 2005 10:44 PM

No, seriously, that's what I searched. I didn't know what it meant. I guess I'm a bit vacuous! <--- LOOK! I used it in a sentence!

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

DEC 19, 2005 11:54 PM

Timer said:
I think the key word in the story is "Yahoo." Yahoo is more of a start page than a search page. It's for people that are "lightweight" users of the web.

Results from Googlefight follow: Iraq beats "Britney Spears," which beats out "Hurricaine Katrina," though there were two hurricaines, and "hurricaine" is a bit tricky for the average schmuck to spell. Then again, so is "Britney."



A) Isn't Googlefight about how many pages come up with the searches, not how many times those terms have been searched?
B) Hurricane has one i. So, you prove your point about how hard it is to spell it.. wink

gut666

gut666

Moreno Valley, CA
April 2005

DEC 20, 2005 12:12 AM

im not surprised .

JackSalt

JackSalt

Turners Station, KY
February 2004

DEC 20, 2005 07:37 AM

I can't even laugh at this kind of statistic anymore.

It's sickening.
mad

juice_willis

juice_willis

Saint Kitts And Nevis
OLD SKOOL

DEC 20, 2005 09:07 AM

Great Churchill quote...

Something like "the biggest argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter."

The average schmoe can tell you if BK's got 99 cent Whoppers, but wouldn't know where to begin if you asked them... well, almost anything else that doesn't directly affect their little bastion of comfort.

Please don't think I make a habit out of quoting Winston Churchill.


ASSH0LE

ASSH0LE

Las Vegas, NV
June 2003

DEC 21, 2005 02:14 AM

malkav11 said:
B) Hurricane has one i. So, you prove your point about how hard it is to spell it.. wink



Hey, if the OP was too damned busy saving the universe to spellcheck the post, what do you want from me?

Saffron

Saffron

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

DEC 22, 2005 10:27 AM

So what were you searching for in 2005?



your mom.

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