Top Web Searches for the Year 2009

by Siddartha on December 4, 2009

As the end of the year creeping, the Web Giants Like Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL started releasing the interesting data.
According to Various estimations by various Web Giants, these were Top searches in web search engines for the year 2009. The King of Pop Michael Jackson who passed away recently stood first in the overall searches for 2009 in Bing, Yahoo and Google.
Swine flu, Twitter, Facebook and Windows 7 were among the most searched-for terms of the year, according to the latest statistics from search engines Google and Bing.
Twilight, WWE, Megan Fox, Britney Spearswere among the most searched-for terms of the year, according to the latest statistics from Yahoo.

search engines Top Web Searches for the Year 2009Google Spokesman said “People searched about new sensations like Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle, but they also turned to the web to learn about the deaths of Stephen Gately, Jade Goody, and Michael Jackson.”

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Top 10 Overall Searches for Google

  1. Michael Jackson (King of Pop)
  2. Swine flu
  3. Susan Boyle
  4. Twitter
  5. Facebook
  6. Windows 7
  7. Stephen Gately (The Boyzone singe)
  8. Jade Goody (Big Brother star)
  9. Robert Pattinson (Star of the Twilight movies)
  10. Rhianna

The list of trending topics for Microsoft Bing are US-centric, because Microsoft did not launch a localised UK version of the search service until earlier this month.

Top 10 Overall Searches for Bing

  1. Michael Jackson (King of Pop)
  2. Twitter
  3. Swine flu
  4. The stock market
  5. Farrah Fawcett
  6. Patrick Swayze
  7. Cash for clunkers (the US car scrappage scheme)
  8. Jon and Kate Gosselin (reality TV stars)
  9. Billy Mays (Baseball player )
  10. Jaycee Lee Dugard (who was found safe and well 18 years after being kidnapped as an 11-year-old)
While Yahoo top searches definitely depict some hot memes and internet sensations for 2009 — think Michael Jackson, Megan Fox, Twilight, and Cash for Clunkers — Twitter is surprisingly absent from all of the top 10 lists.
Top 10 Overall Searches for Yahoo
  1. Michael Jackson
  2. Twilight
  3. WWE
  4. Megan Fox
  5. Britney Spears
  6. Naruto
  7. American Idol
  8. Kim Kardashian
  9. NASCAR
  10. Runescape
Here is the another list released by Ask. Ask.com looks back on the top questions of the year across popular categories like entertainment and pop culture, travel, health, fitness, parenting, and technology. Check it Here.

Facebook topped the list of overall hottest search terms this year, followed by the BBC, YouTube, Hotmail, games, eBay, news, Google, Yahoo! and Bebo. Rival search engine Bing and music-streaming service Spotify were also among the year’s fastest-rising search queries.

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Article by Siddartha Thota

Siddartha is a Part-Time blogger and Student. He is a freelancer, SMO expert and His areas of Interests were SEO, Social Media analysis. You can read more about him here. You can follow him on Facebook | Twitter | Google+. You can subscribe to GadgetCage RSS Feed or Email Norifications.

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