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By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide to Web Search since 2004

Search of the Week: Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi

Saturday July 11, 2009
The top breakout search of the week ending July 10 for Google, Yahoo, and Ask was, sadly, the death of NFL star Steve McNair and his girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi (you can read more about this here: Steve McNair Shot to Death, Steve McNair - A Profile of Steve McNair, McNair Was Shot in Sleep by Girlfriend).

According to Google Insights, the top searches were steve mcnair dead, steve mcnair, and sahel kazemi. Breaking these searches down geographically, the regions that searched the most for these terms were the United States and Mexico, with Tennessee, Mississippi, and Maryland doing the most searches.

Yahoo's Buzz Index reports Sahel Kazemi was one of the highest searches this week, outranking Steve McNair by far, oddly enough.

Ask saw spikes for this topic in the categories of Top News Searches and Top Advancing Searches; Steve McNair outpaced Sahel Kazemi for Ask.com searches. Related Ask searches were Steve McNair Biography, Steve McNair Wife, and 398 questions about Steve McNair.

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