Ask.com Top Searches of 2006


Ask.com sent us their top searches for 2006 by category. Categories include news, celebrity, health, entertainment, images, and sports.

Top News Searches: 1. President Bush 2. War in Iraq 3. Bird Flu 4. Iran 5. Gas Prices 6. North Korea 7. Britney Spears 8. Israel / Palestine 9. Wall Street 10. World Cup

Top Celebrity Searches: 1. Chris Brown 2. Britney Spears 3. Steve Irwin 4. Shakira 5. Jessica Simpson 6. Angelina Jolie 7. Paris Hilton 8. 50 Cent 9. Zac Efron 10. Taylor Hicks

Top Health Searches: 1. Pregnancy 2. Bird Flu 3. Stem Cell Research 4. Diabetes 5. E. coli 6. Depression 7. AIDS 8. Atkins Diet 9. Cancer 10. Health Insurance

Top Entertainment Searches: Music: 1. Chris Brown 2. Shakira 3. Jessica Simpson 4. 50 Cent 5. Ciara 6. Pussycat Dolls 7. Taylor Hicks 8. Maria Hicks 9. Lil’ Wayne 10. Omarian

Movies: 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 2. Cars 3. Ice Age: The Meltdown 4. The DaVinci Code 5. Superman Returns 6. X-Men: The Last Stand 7. Happy Feet 8. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Khazakstan 9. World Trade Center 10. Silent Hill

Top Image Searches: 1. Jessica Simpson 2. Anime 3. Carmen Electra 4. SpongeBob Squarepants 5. Chris Brown 6. Naruto 7. Jessica Alba 8. Pamela Anderson 9. Lindsey Lohan 10. Paris Hilton

Top Sports Searches: 1. World Cup 2. Barry Bonds 3. Allen Iverson 4. Tour de France 5. Tiger Woods 6. Tony Hawk 7. Zinedine Zidane 8. World Baseball Classic 9. Pittsburgh Steelers 10. Maria Sharapova



Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON Ask.com Top Searches of 2006

Rose Water,

Sweet! I’ll have to make a site about atkins spears anderson cars aids!



FP,

Top Image Searches:Jessica Simpson… May be:)

I am using Ask.com to find specific information and always curious about the answers FeaturePics.com Authors (it is our site) provide for questions from this seach engine.

http://www.featurepics.com/Editorial/ask.aspx
it is what Ask.com is asking, and what FeaturePics Authors are answering.

May be not 100% correct answers, but no nonsense, everything to the point…




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