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AOL and Yahoo Reveal 2008 Top Searches
Allen Stern - December 1st, 2008
Search engines Yahoo and AOL have released their "2008 top searches" lists today. Check out the Yahoo and AOL year in review websites to view the full lists of all types of searches. Oops she did it again — Britney Spears leads on both search engines. Somehow Yahoo has Britney as the top overall search but not the top search in the celebrity category?
Here’s the lists from the News category:
| Yahoo | AOL | |
| 1. | Hurricanes | Presidential Election |
| 2. | Caylee and Casey Anthony | Olympics |
| 3. | Election 2008 | Bailout |
| 4. | Pakistan | Hurricane Ike |
| 5. | Pregnant Man | Unemployment |
| 6. | China | Stock Market |
| 7. | Iraq | Bigfoot |
| 8. | Shelley Malil | Stimulus Checks |
| 9. | Patrick Swayze | High Gas Prices |
| 10. | Afganistan | Eliot Spitzer Scandal |
Some other fun bits….
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How to tie a tie = most popular how-to search on AOL
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AOL says Las Vegas was the most searched U.S. city for travel – NYC placed 5th
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Yahoo shows Jamie Lynn Spears moving up in the celebrity category – hey a teenage pregnancy and a baby daddy will do it every time!
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In Yahoo’s "influential women" category – mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano beat out Michelle Obama
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Heath Ledger and Bernie Mac lead Yahoo’s dead people category
