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AOL Search - 2008 Year End Hot Searches
about-search.aol.com — The Year's Hottest Searches From Britney Spears to the Eliot Spitzer scandal, it s been a busy... year. Reminisce about the biggest news stories, blunders, gossip and drama of 2008 with the Year End Hot Searches. American Idol - Top TV & Movies NASCAR - ... (more) AOL Search - 2008 Year End Hot Searches
TiVo Mobile enables remote scheduling, program searches
TiVo Mobile enables remote scheduling, program searches
engadgetmobile.com — Remote scheduling has been possible on TiVo boxes for years now, and Verizon Wireless users in particular... have been able to do so on their mobiles since last March. Now, however, TiVo Mobile is making handset scheduling for Series2 / Series3 owners ... (more) TiVo Mobile enables remote scheduling, program searches
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Ask.com Has Top Searches Too; They’re Just Really Boring
TechCrunch — ... out. They then compile a list of terms that they think properly reflects key trends that people are looking for, occasionally looking at the actual data for guidance. We saw Yahoo’s list earlier today. Ask’s comes next. And it’s clear they are being way too honest. The top search is Dictionary followed by MySpace, Google, YouTube and Facebook. These aren’t searches, they’re navigation queries. Ah well. Here’s the complete list: Dictionary MySpace Google YouTube ...

Britney Spears and wrestling trounce Obama in Yahoo search rankings
VentureBeat — ... Yahoo also has rankings for most searched news stories, politicians, Olympians, celebrities-in-training, economic buzz words, women and notable deaths. By the way, Ask.com also just released its top 2008 searches, a list that’s hilariously more practical than Yahoo’s. Ask.com’s #1 search is for “dictionary,” followed by “MySpace” which is ironic given the spelling atrocities committed on that site. Its third place equivalent of Yahoo’s Obama? ...

Ask.com’s Answer to Why the Sky is Blue & Other Questions we Ask
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Want to know what we as a group think about, worry about, and are curious about? Ask.com gives insight by naming the top searches of the year. 2008 was a year of worries about gas prices and the economy. We sought out deals on vacations, used cars, and cheap apartments. ...

Top Annual Searches Starting to Roll In
John Battelle's Searchblog — Sorry, but I say this every year: The top searches from the engines each year are so damn BORING! Ask Yahoo How I wish these lists told us something we didn't already know! ...

No escaping Britney Spears: 2008's top searches
Webware.com — ... Ask.com also spotlighted popular 2008 searches, and has a few variations on the standard search categories. Its top questions are as follows: ...

Ask.com reveals Top 2008 Searches
D' Technology Weblog — Both Yahoo! and Ask.com revealed the hottest searches for 2008 on their respective engines. Check out the breakdown of top searches for Yahoo! here and Ask.com top 10 search list includes: Dictionary MySpace Google YouTube Facebook Coupons Cars Craigslist Online degrees Credit score ...

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The most common football searches online | The Sun |Features
thesun.co.uk 8/13/2009 — IF online searches counted for Premier League points, Liverpool would be top of the table. The info comes from search engine Google, who have released figures of footie related searches from the past month as we prepare for Saturday's big kick-off.  ...
Google hit by slump in product searches [Online Advertising]
valleywag.com 11/14/2008 — Google's oh-so-clever ad system has an Achilles heel : As consumers cut back on spending, they also cut back on Google searches for stuff they want to buy. Furthermore, many shoppers now click on more links in search of a bargain. An official ...