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Top searches for Britney Spears on pay-per search engine Overture.com show the singer getting over 3.8 million searches during the month of February. The success of ‘Toxic’ was evident also, as ‘Britney Spears Toxic’ received over 221,000 searches, even more than the traditional ‘Britney Spears nude’ search that normally is right below her generic name. That was enough to easily top the second most searched song – also an album title – ‘In The Zone’ with 9,859 queries. The most searched web site was her official domain, BritneySpears.com with 41,930 queries.

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.

Contributed anonymously:

Britney Spears ends 2003 being Lycos’ most searched woman of the year. All year long Britney stayed in the top 50 most searched terms, never dropping lower then #20. This is the 5th year Lycos has been around, and for 5 years Britney was the #1 woman. This also makes her the #1 most searched singer, beating out all of her male competitors also. Other female singers making the list include, Jennifer Lopez at #5, Christina Aguilera making her peak at #7, Avril Lavigne at #10, Hilary Duff debuting at #11, and Madonna climbs from #19 to #12, with a little help from Britney. Down the list a little, Beyonce enters at #14, Shakira falls to #15, Aaliyah falls to #16, and Shania Twain debuts at #20. Interesting fact, Britney has been on 224 weeks, and the fact that Lycos is 224 weeks old shows Britney has been on since day number one. Only five other terms own the honor.

Contributed anonymously:

While “The kiss,” is almost a month old, Britney Spears is still benefiting from it. She is the #5 most searched term on Lycos, this is also do to the high anticipation around her new album. Clay Aiken loses steam, falling to #12, Christina Aguilera remains at #18, and Christina has someone to worry about, Hilary Duff. Hilary climbs to #20, while Johnny Cash climbs to #21. Madonna flops to #34, Beyonce Knowles leaps to #40, 50 Cent tumbles to #41, and Eminem falls to #43. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t show up by herself, she is under “Bennifer Breakup,” which leap frogs #31-#10. Also, Rolling Stone magazine makes the list (#39), due to their new Britney cover. It seems every magazine Britney is on, is/was gaining searches including “W” and “British Elle.”

It is now two weeks later, and searches for the Britney Spears-Madonna kiss from the MTV Video Music Awards see no sign of dropping off the pop culture radar. Put that together with Britney’s appearance on Thursday’s NFL kickoff show and she is back for a second week at #1. This is the first time since August 2000 that Britney has spent two straight weeks on top of the Lycos 50. Others on the list include Madonna at #5, Clay Aiken at #7, Christina Aguilera at #12, Hilary Duff at #25, and Jennifer Lopez at #33.

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