Britney Tops 2003 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

Google’s 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist reports Britney Spears has emerged on top of the list of searches worldwide in 2003 — no less than 55 billion of them — on the Google search engine. Others on the list included Shakira at #4, David Beckham at #5, 50 Cent at #6, and Kobe Bryant at #9. News queries saw plenty of searches for Michael Jackson, who was #7 on the news queries chart.