Most Popular
Search Engine KeywordsA recent compilation
of the 200 most popular keywords submitted to the
Yahoo! Search engine offers some insights about the types of individuals that prowl
the Web.
Namely, that they're hung up on sex, porn, and Pamela Lee
Anderson. Of the top 20 keywords, 12 were sex-related, including "porn,"
"porno," and "pornography."
"Baywatch" babe Pam Anderson racked up 172,760 inquiries
in a recent month to place 12th - two places behind "weather," 10 places ahead
of "Microsoft," and 92 slots before "Bob Dole."
Other observations:
"Metallica" (59) finished just ahead of "real estate" and "stock
quotes"; at No. 82 "anal sex" was just before "cars" and
"USA Today"; and "Days of Our Lives" (91) came up more frequently than
"marijuana" (93) and "Beatles" (111). People were more interested in
"Las Vegas" (56) than "New York" (157) or "Seattle" (196).
"Yahoo" itself ranked 163rd, causing Mark Grimes, an online advertiser
who publicized the list, to comment: "Why do 39,440 people a month look up
"Yahoo" on Yahoo!?" Maybe too many ate lead paint as children."
The Top 50:
sex, chat, Playboy, Netscape software, nude, porno, games, porn, weather, Penthouse,
Pamela Anderson, pornography, pussy, Persian Kitty, maps, Halloween, music, adult, chat
rooms, erotica, Microsoft, jokes, shareware, magazines, pictures, employment, jobs,
erotic, gay, Jenny McCarthy, Netscape, bondage, lingerie, hardcore, Cindy Crawford,
Hustler, ESPN, supermodels, Disney, Star Wars, girls, movies, Star Trek, mIRC, genealogy,
screen savers, Japan, soccer, and tits.
Top 51-100:
nude celebrities, nudity, MPEG, nudes, MTV, Las Vegas, NASA, travel, Metallica, real
estate, stock quotes, golf, sex stories, lesbian, CNN, sports, quake, Hewlett Packard,
IRC, Simpsons, gay sex, Nirvana, X-files, Madonna, sex pictures, horoscope, football, map,
Java, MIDI, fuck, anal sex, cars, USA Today, recipes, education, Mexico, airlines, HTML,
free sex, Days of Our Lives, Australia, marijuana, NFL, India, Pearl Jam, babes,
wrestling, Hong Kong, and history.