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Top 100 Lycos Searches of 2005 - and WWPHSF

Friday December 16, 2005
We are ALL about top searches today here at Web Search Central, as you can see from my previous posts about Yahoo and A9.com. Not to be outdone, Lycos has released their list of the Top 100 Search Terms of 2005. Here are the Top Ten; last year's rank is in the parentheses:
  • 1. Paris Hilton (2)
  • 2. Pamela Anderson (8)
  • 3. Britney Spears (4)
  • 4. Poker (10)
  • 5. Dragonball (13)
  • 6. Jennifer Lopez (28)
  • 7. WWE (17)
  • 8. Pokemon (33)
  • 9. Playstation (24)
  • 10. Hurricane Katrina (-)
Paris Hilton, you little search engine vixen, you. You just seem to be popping up all over the Web, and I just can't think why...it's escaping me...huh. Well, anyway - I came up with a new superhappy fun acronym today, and that is WWPHSF, or What Would Paris Hilton Search For? Here's what I think everyone's favorite blonde socialite/media hog would search for on the Web:
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July 22, 2009 at 1:56 am
(1) Tourism says:

very useful list, thank you.

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