World Cup Scores Big Jumping into Top 10; American Idol Reject Elliott Yamin, 667% More Popular Online Than Winner Taylor Hicks
Pixar Film Cars Races Up Search Logs; File-Sharing Protocol BitTorrent makes first-ever appearance
The Lycos 50 for Week Ending June 17, 2006
WALTHAM, Mass.—June 21, 2006—Lycos, Inc.(www.lycos.com), an entertainment destination for creators and consumers of quality content, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50™, the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending June 17, 2006. For a complete list of The Lycos 50™ and for in-depth text of The Lycos 50 Daily Report, go to http://50.lycos.com. Readers of The Lycos 50 can also share their thoughts on Internet trends and pop culture on The Lycos 50 Blog located at https://lycos50.tripod.com/blog/.
Biggest Movers and Shakers over the Past Week Ending June 17, 2006:
1. Taxes 343 %
2. Hard Drive Recovery 328 %
3. Auto Classified 234 %
4. Day Trading 222 %
5. Father’s Day 211 %
6. Ninel Conde 202 %
7. Tamara Hoover 199 %
8. Bluetooth 185 %
9. Sienna Miller 179 %
10. Alice Braga 178 %
Notes of Interest:
Interest in the 2006 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament has driven World Cup (#9) into The Lycos 50 top 10, up 59 percent over the past week. For an entertaining first-hand look at the mayhem surrounding this year’s World Cup in Germany, check out all the craziness and none of the scores with over-the-top video on Lycos TV at http://worldcup.lycos.com. Also scoring big online is American Idol reject Elliott Yamin (#21), who makes an impressive debut on this week’s Lycos 50, generating 667 percent more online interest than winner Taylor Hicks, who actually drops off this week’s list.
Other Notes of Interest:Taxes (#5) make the biggest jump this week, climbing from number 34 last week, with web users primarily searching for information about their rebate checks, extensions and returns. One of the new terms also debuting on The Lycos 50 is BitTorrent (#45). The file sharing protocol has become all the rage on the net ever since BitTorrent emerged as the most efficient method of sharing large volumes of data between hundreds of computers.
The Lycos 50™ Top 10 Search Terms for the Week Ending June 17, 2006:
1) Poker
2) Pamela Anderson 3) Paris Hilton
4) RuneScape
5) Taxes
6) Britney Spears
7) Spyware
8) MySpace
9) World Cup
10) Pokemon
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