Clay Aiken Search Interest Huge In June

Searches for ‘American Idol’ runner-up Clay Aiken were over 10 times that of the show’s champ, Ruben Studdard, during the month of June on pay-per click search engine Overture.com. Clay even received triple the number of searches *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake received during the month and about 25% more than Christina Aguilera, but about 40% less than Britney Spears. There were 882,091 searches for “Clay Aiken” for the month. The most searched song lyric was for ‘This Is The Night’ with 4,401 queries. The most common misspelling was Clay Aikens with 9,410 queries, followed by Clay Akin with 5,380.