Earlier this week Yahoo released its top searches of 2006, including celeb search, news stories, celebrity babies, sports teams & politicians. Amazingly enough, the results do prove one solid point, Britney Spears is a publicity & buzz generation genius.
They’ve gone and packaged all of this fluffy info into an interactive Yahoo Buzz index experience which moves beyond search and into the social media fields of photos, videos and Yahoo Answers.
So, what were the top Yahoo searches for 2006?
1 Britney Spears
2 WWE
3 Shakira
4 Jessica Simpson
5 Paris Hilton
6 American Idol
7 Beyonce Knowles
8 Chris Brown
9 Pamela Anderson
10 Lindsay Lohan
Wait a second, something looks familiar here… Britney, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan? What is this; MySpace? Take a look at the top Yahoo Searches for 2005 and you’ll see quite similar results from the Yahoo user base:
1. Britney Spears
2. 50 Cent
3. Cartoon Network
4. Mariah Carey
5. Green Day
6. Jessica Simpson
7. Paris Hilton
8. Eminem
9. Ciara
10. Lindsay Lohan
Pop culture at its finest.
Similar but a bit more diverse results from 2004:
1. American Idol
2. Paris Hilton
3. Jessica Simpson
4. Britney Spears
5. Harry Potter
6. WWE
7. Usher
8. NASCAR
9. NBA
10. NFL
I find the top news stories a bit more interesting and reflective of the past 12 months:
1 Steve Irwin death
2 Anna Nicole’s son dies
3 Iraq
4 Israel and Lebanon
5 U.S. elections
6 Fidel Castro stroke
7 North Korea nuke
8 JonBenet confession
9 Saddam Hussein trial
10 Danish cartoon
