Dec 26, 2006 at 11:33am ET by Barry Schwartz
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
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Sweet! I’ll have to make a site about atkins spears anderson cars aids!
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…