Category Archives: Search Engine

Jesse McCartney Top Search Queries In March

Posted on May 1, 2005 by popdirt

Searches for singer/actor were huge in the month of March on Yahoo’s pay-per search engine overture.com. Searches for ‘’ were 717,014 for the month — more than 5 times pop rival Aaron Carter, while ‘Beautiful Soul’ was the ‘Summerland’ star’s most searched for song. The most common misspelling was ‘Jesse MacCartney’ with 19,128 searches, followed by ‘Jessie McCartney’ with 18,768.

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Janet Jackson Tops Lycos Search Interest In ’04

Posted on December 29, 2004 by popdirt

The Top 100 search terms of 2004 on search engine Lycos were announced, with ’s Super Bowl breast flash propelling the singer to the top of the list — even though she didn’t even appear on the top 100 in the previous year. Paris Hilton jumped from #4 to #2 thanks to interest in your home porn tape. Claymates helped overinflate searches for ‘American Idol’ season two runner-up to #3 on the list (popdirt’s previous analysis showed Aiken’s search interest was artifically generated to get him on the Lycos 50 chart and doesn’t correlate with other search engines), while got the #4 spot.

The complete list at 50.lycos.com has since been removed.

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Britney Spears Tops 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

Posted on December 23, 2004 by popdirt

The 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist has been posted, and once again topped the search engine’s most popular query list. Closely following Spears were Paris Hilton, Christina Aguilera and Pamela Anderson, who finished second, third and fourth, respectively. Read more.

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Britney Spears Dominates Top 2004 Searches

Posted on December 23, 2004 by popdirt

Contributed by XtinaFan:

Yahoo! has announced its ‘Top 2004 Searches’, and is almost at the top of every list. She has her name in almost every category, which no other artists have. She placed #4 on the ‘Top 10 Search Terms’ (right behind American Idol, Paris Hilton, and Jessica Simpson). Britney placed #2 on the ‘Top Music Searches’ (right behind Jessica Simpson, and ahead of Christina Aguilera who is at #7). She placed #3 on the ‘Top Music Lyrics’ Searches (behind Usher and Eminem). Britney was also announced the ‘Top Mover’ of September, when the most searched for mover was “ Wedding”. On top of all this, Britney also has her own category of searches (the only artist that has their own category), which Yahoo! titled “Top Searches”.

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Lindsay Lohan Top Search Queries

Posted on December 19, 2004 by popdirt

search queries on Yahoo’s pay-per-search engine Overture.com were huge in November, with the singer/actress getting 1,038,923 searches for ‘’. While interest in her single ‘Rumors’ was big, it appears most interest surrounded the buxom beauty’s recent nipple slip. Lindsay searches were about 10% behind teen queen rival Hilary Duff. The most frequent misspelling was Lindsey Lohan with 157,357 searches, followed by Linsay Lohan with 29,706 and Linsey Lohan with 24,896.

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Clay Aiken Fans Inflate Search Interest On The Lycos 50

Posted on December 18, 2004 by popdirt

While the Lycos 50 chart of top search queries shows consistently in the top 5, and at #2 this week, deeper evidence shows that the singer is not nearly as popular online as that list indicates, pointing to the ‘American Idol’ season two runner-up’s faithful fans artificially inflating his search interest. Yahoo owned pay-per-search engine Overture’s list of top Clay searches for the month of November show ‘’ received 204,736 searches for the month, far behind , who got over 3 million searches, or even ‘Idol’ season one champ Kelly Clarkson, who got 627,000 searches — three times that of Aiken. Clay’s most popular song was the seasonal ‘Merry Christmas With Love’, followed by ‘The Way’. His most frequent misspelling was Clay Akin with 4,748 searches, followed by Clay Aikens with 2,384 searches.

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Jeff Timmons Holiday Concert

Posted on November 29, 2004 by popdirt

Contributed anonymously:

98 Degrees star is crisscrossing the country with Jim Brickman and Friends, performing a holiday concert through the month of December. They landed in San Jose Sunday, November 28. Bottom line, I loved finally seeing him live (I missed the last 98 Degrees tour), and he was the best thing about the show (the French-cuff lavender shirt and black velvet pants he sported at the start of Act 2 were practically worth the price of admission). His voice was in fine form and demonstrated a gravity and resonance absent from the other vocalists. The good is it’s all new material that you haven’t heard before; the bad is there none of his solo album (‘Whisper That Way’) on the program.
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Top Delta Goodrem Search Queries In October

Posted on November 28, 2004 by popdirt

The top searches for on pay-per search engine Overture.com in October 2004 have been posted online. ‘’ received 94,044 total searches for the month, while her new single ‘Out Of The Blue’ was her most searched for song, followed by ‘Lost Without You’. Several searches related to her ex-boyfriend Mark Philippoussis made the list. The most frequent misspelling was Delta Goodram with 1074 searches, followed by Delta Godrem with 523.

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JoJo Shows Search Engine Mojo

Posted on July 26, 2004 by popdirt

searches on leading pay-per-search provider Overture.com were huge in June, and likely will continue the momentum in July. ‘’ received 958,211 searches for the month, while her real name, ‘Joanna Levesque’, received only 3,687 searches. The search figure nearly matched Christina Aguilera and easily outdid Hilary Duff queries. Despite her young age, there were nude searches. And despite the simple spelling, there were plenty of misspelled searches, topped by “Jogo” with 4,675 queries. ’s most searched song naturally was ‘Leave’ with 51,179 queries.

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Britney Topples Porn Queen In New Lycos 50

Posted on May 18, 2004 by popdirt

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After weeks of being beaten by hotel heiress, adult video queen, and actress Paris Hilton, topples her this week and become the web’s most searched celebrity and most searched female. Nick Berg the execution vicitim debuted at #1, while the war linked items take #2 and #3. landed at #4, much thanks to her newest hit, ‘Everytime,’ and her new beau. takes the the #5 spot after dropping 2 spots. Jessica Simpson continues to see a surge in searches and comes in at #23. Elsewhere, Usher tumbles to #24, Beyonce Knowles leaps to #27, and Hilary Duff falls 13 spots to #30. Jennifer Lopez hits her lowest spot in the past few months falling to #42 and finally Christina Aguilera falls 13 spots to #50 mainly over speculation on why she cancelled her tour.

The complete list at 50.lycos.com has since been removed.

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