Bebo and Myspace topping Google Searches in 2006?

[Syringer]

Stolen here.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2006.html

Compare this to last year:

1. Janet Jackson
2. Hurricane Katrina
3. tsunami
4. xbox 360
5. Brad Pitt

Maybe Time Magazine was onto something.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/topsearches2006/lists/

And on Yahoo..

Top 10 Overall Searches
1 Britney Spears
2 WWE
3 Shakira
4 Jessica Simpson
5 Paris Hilton

Very contrasting, and interesting. You would think you have similiar crowds searching for Myspace/Bebo as you would Britney/Shakira, not to mention Yahoo/Google crowds are pretty much the same more or less, but there must be different methodologies for coming up with these rankings, as they are very contrasting to each other for some reason.

Edit: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/28/google-top-searches-based-on-nothing/

In the clarification today, Google said: ?we do not simply retrieve the most frequently-searched terms for the period ? the truth is, they don?t change that much from year to year?Instead, we looked for those searches that were very popular in 2006 but were not as popular in 2005 ? the explosive queries, the topics that everyone obsessed over. To come up with this list, we looked at several thousand of 2006?s most popular searches, and ranked them based on how much their popularity increased compared to 2005. (?Bebo?, for example, had very little traffic in 2005.) We also gave a bit higher score to searches with more traffic. Similarly, our ?what is? and ?who is? lists are not necessarily the absolute most frequent searches, but rather those that best represent the passing year.?

 

[mercanucaribe]

Pepole who use Yahoo are obviously idiots based on that list.

Top 10 Overall Searches
1Britney Spears 2WWE 3Shakira 4Jessica Simpson 5Paris Hilton 6American Idol 7Beyonce Knowles 8Chris Brown 9Pamela Anderson 10Lindsay Lohan

 

[Syringer]

And people who search for myspace/bebo rather than typing in www.myspace.com or www.bebo.com are not?

 

[dethman]

i dont even know wtf bebo is. and i think i dont want to know.

 

[Mucho]

Never even heard of Bebo until now.

 

[Syringer]

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