Twitter & YouTube Release Popular Searches For 2009; Facebook Top Search
Dec 16, 2009 at 2:47pm ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski
On the Twitter blog today, Chief Scientist Abdur released a summary chart of the most popular trending topics on the social platform during 2009:
Microsoft's Windows 7 did make the Top 10 Technology searches, but no such luck for Bing. In addition to the major news events of the year like the Iran Election (a popular topic for real time searches), Michael Jackson's death and Swine Flu/H1N1, the weekly favorite, #MusicMonday made the list, but no mention of #FollowFriday.
Similarly, YouTube also released the most popular videos of 2009, with few surprises:
Most Watched YouTube vi [...]
Filed in: Search Headlines, Stats: Popularity
AOL’s List Of Lists – Top Searches 2009
Dec 1, 2009 at 12:01pm ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski
AOL has weighed in with a heavy hitting list of 2009's top searches in the categories below.
AOL’s top searched celebrities for 2009
michael jackson
robert pattinson
rihanna
farrah fawcett
kim kardashian
megan fox
jon and kate
miley cyrus
patrick swayze
natasha richardson
Oh, Edward. Patrick Swayze should roadhouse you from heaven. It surprising that AOL is the only search engine where Rihanna made the Top 10, given her year of very public struggles, although Ask does get an honorable mention for a popular Rihanna rumor being questioned.
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Filed in: AOL, Search Headlines, Stats: Search Behavior
Ask: The Most Burning Questions Of 2009
Dec 1, 2009 at 3:54am ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski
In true Ask fashion, we've got the answers (well...not complete answers) to what the most popular questions were on Ask.com during the year. According to Ask.com, visitors are three times more likely to type search queries in the form of a question. Holding steady at 50 million visits per month (October 2009, ComScore), question based searches continue to grow year over year on Ask.
Falling in line with the most popular searches on other engines, questions surrounding the economic crisis and financial stability were among the popular categories, but it was the celebrity rumors that create [...]
Filed in: Ask, Search Headlines, Stats: Search Behavior
Yahoo! Annual Year In Review: 2009
Dec 1, 2009 at 2:40am ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski
It's official, the annual release of the Yahoo! Year in Review for 2009 has arrived! Perhaps bigger and better than ever, this year's Yahoo! roundup includes in-depth pictorials and a slew of popular topics to sort through, as well as some bonus features - such as the decade in sports, Yahoo Answers highlights, and a Twitter contest where you can share your top moments of 2009 for a chance to win one of the most popular products of the year, the iPod Touch.
Don't have the time to scan them all? Here are the highlights of the most popular searches on Yahoo! in 2009:
Top 10 Overall Searc [...]
Filed in: Search Headlines, Stats: Search Behavior, Yahoo, Yahoo: Buzz
Marissa Mayer, Glamour Girl – Named 2009 Woman of the Year
Nov 9, 2009 at 10:50am ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski
In addition to her skills as the well known VP of search and user experience at Google, a wardrobe including Oscar de la Renta and Armani helped land this girl from a (very) small town in Wisconsin on Glamour Magazine's 2009 Women of the Year list.
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Marissa Mayer is profiled as a "visionary" in the magazine's annual spread of influential women and newsmakers from 2009. CEO Eric Schmidt is quoted in the article as saying: "It’s pretty hard to overstate her impact...She bu [...]
Filed in: Search Headlines
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