Web Zeitgeist 264
An anonymous reader writes "CNN has a story about Lycos and its 50 top "searched for" items of the year. After excluding "sex", "Dragonball" was #1, followed by "Kazaa", "tattoos", "Britney Spears", and the "NFL" (american football) rounding out the top 5. IRS was #7, and taxes acheived #14. "The Bible" is #21 followed by "Marijuana" at #22.
It appears that pop-stars, supermodels, computer games, sports, and september 11th related words heavily dominate the rest of the top 100. How about the biggest declines? Boy bands. nSync down from 36 to 163, and Back Street Boys tumble to 250 from 58. Lycos is hosting the top 100 results this year here with some commentary. Google also has their own comprehensive lists (and cool charts) as well."
Hurry! We can still influence the 2002 results! (Score:5, Insightful)
If all goes well... we should see something like this:
Woe as me (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Woe as me (Score:3, Insightful)
Statistics like this one tell us something, don't they? Average human being is mediocre who has very little interest in anything beyond basic needs and fun/amusement. People who realise this are able to communicate with masses, get their agenda out there and capitalise on it in various ways.
No wonder entertainment corporations make shitloads of money each and every year and fundamentalists of all flavours have so much followers - to name just a few consequences.
Chu Mei-Feng at #20 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:from the Lycos FAQ... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:What google neglected to mention... (Score:1, Insightful)
what could be sweeter
Completely incomplete without porn. (Score:5, Insightful)
What about internet2? (Score:3, Insightful)
http://www.internet2.edu/
Many universities now have their own internal search engines that their students connect to... Many of those searches are not factored in these results either.
Many users go directly to their most used sites like cnn.com or espn.com and search for what they want there. Those results may not be factored in to the google or lycos results...
Then comes places like AOL that still have millions of users that do searches from within the AOL client which are not factored in either...
Re:What google neglected to mention... (Score:5, Insightful)
Why don't you just set the Reason Modifier in your preferences [slashdot.org] accordingly.
Oh, I know. You'd have to log in to do that.
-jfedor
What a hopeful world we live in (Score:2, Insightful)
If I was religious, I'd pray for the state of our people. What a horribly depressing top 100 list. Have we got nothing else to think about besides damned Brittany?
Re:from the Lycos FAQ...Media Distortion (Score:2, Insightful)