Search engines Lycos and Google have compiled their lists of the
top internet searches over the course of 2002. Google users made 55
billion searches over the year, or 150 million per day, according
to the company. Both sets of results have been censored for
decency, however.
Lycos compiled its top 10 search terms as follows (last year's
ranking in brackets):
- Dragonball (1)
- KaZaA (64)
- Tattoos (4)
- Britney Spears (2)
- Morpheus (21)
- NFL (16)
- IRS (6)
- Halloween (20)
- Christmas (17)
- Pamela Anderson (11)
Dragonball, the top-ranked search term, is a Japanese animation;
but a notable omission is the word "sex." It is said to be the
internet's most popular search term; but both Google and Lycos
omitted this and anything else deemed offensive from their
family-friendly results.
Google compiled its "2002 Year-End Zeitgeist" in a number of
categories – athletes (David Beckham at number one), gaining
categories (Spiderman), declining categories (Nostradamus), top men
(Eminem), top women (Jennifer Lopez), brands (Ferrari), technology
(MP3).
The Lycos Top 100 is at http://50.lycos.com/
The Google Zeitgeist is at www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
