Top Searches of 2005
Posted by Melanie Phung on Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 12:07 am
A bunch of search engines have released their annual lists of top search terms in 2005. Jason Lee Miller of WebProNews bemoans what they say about the collective mind of the searching public:
So I’m an Aristotelian pretentious egghead iconoclast jerk. Sue me. But at the end of every year when various media rehash what was on the collective mind of my compatriots, I tarry near weeping - okay, so that’s dramatic, but have you seen what the kids are searching for on the Internet these days?.
But he declines to wax philosophical and just leaves it at this “rough translation” of a saying he attributes to Aristotle: “the massess are asses”!
The top 10 from meta-search engine Dogpile:
1. Music Lyrics
2. Paris Hilton
3. Google
4. eBay
5. Yahoo
6. Mapquest
7. Games Cheat
8. Games
9. Dogs
10. Top 100 Baby Names
Top 10 searches inYahoo:
1. Britney Spears
2. 50 Cent
3. Cartoon Network
4. Mariah Carey
5. Green Day
6. Jessica Simpson
7. Paris Hilton
8. Eminem
9. Ciara
10. Lindsay Lohan
Most popular queries according to AOL:
1. Lottery
2. Horoscopes
3. Tattoos
4. Lyrics
5. Ringtones
6. IRS
7. Jokes
8. American Idol
9. Hairstyles
10. NASCAR
Top searches by Lycos users:
1. Paris Hilton
2. Pamela Anderson
3. Britney Spears
4. Poker
5. Dragonball
6. Jennifer Lopez
7. WWE
8. Pokemon
9. Playstation
10. Hurricane Katrina
Google is notorious for not wanting to share specific data, so there doesn’t appear to be a 2005’s Top Searches list; but you can get a sense of what’s hot (besides Paris Hilton) from its Zeitgeist list, which tracks weekly and monthly trends.
Ask Jeeves does something similar with top gaining queries. A9 goes with the “that’s random” route and lists the top 99 searches that contained exactly 9 letters. And MSN Search publishes its list of current 200 top search terms, although in random order.
Update Dec. 20:
Google’s Zeitgeist for the year was just released.
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