In the wake of Google’s Zeitgeist of 2002, both Lycos and Yahoo have provided glimpses of what people are using their search engines to search for. Dragonball (the Japanese animation series and associated products) is at or near the top for both of the other engines, as is Britney Spears, but Dragonball doesn’t appear to feature in Google’s Zeitgeist at all, and on Google Jennifer Lopez is more prominent than Britney Spears – I wonder what that says about the user demographics of each search engine.
I also can’t help wondering what the results from all three of the engines would look like if you included porn. Would sex-related searches make the top 10? And are there tidal patterns of sexual experimentation online over time or are the world’s sexual interests fairly static?mortgage loan alabama refinancemortgage alaska refinance loanmortgage loans alaska refinancecalculator amortization loan home 200 loans armortgage down 0 loanscar 0 loans interestmortgage loan 1 commercial1 hour loans by phoneloan 10 dollar
I was surprised WWE ranks so high in the Yahoo! list. The popularity of certain American sports is probably something Europeans cannot understand.
Comment by Ruben — 30 December 2002 @ 10:10 pm
I wonder how much Sony would be prepared to pay Yahoo for making ‘Playstation 2’ appear top of the search rankings. Is it a piece of guerilla PR that’s worth splashing out for?
Comment by James — 3 January 2003 @ 4:15 am