Yahoo!’s Top Searches of 2008

[TrafficProducer]

Yahoo!’s Top Searches of 2008 have lifted the lid on the most popular people, events and news stories that Yahoo!’s UK users have been searching for in 2008. The top searches reveal that Yahoo! Search users are most interested in celebrity scandal, with Britney Spears coming top in the overall searches for the year, closely followed by Amy Winehouse. The death of Batman star Heath Ledger proved to be this year’s top news story. Reality television shows have been huge news, with Big Brother and X Factor rating highly in the polls this year. High School Musical 3 and Quantum of Solace were among the big hitters in the Movies category which was also hugely popular with the Yahoo! searchers in 2008.

[Russianzio12]

Interesting! Even though this list gives little help to webmasters I wonder if it helps anyone at all?

[PaulT]

Its definately interesting google trends is great to

[kgun]

Or more generally:

Google zeitgeist

that encompasses Google trends.

[sushil]

It is interesting.

[jabo]

I just realized that I may have just been the only one browsing Yahoo for naughty and R rated stuffs.. lol... I guess there weren't much people interested in reading about whats up with our economy last year huh.

[regmac]

Originally Posted by Russianzio12

Interesting! Even though this list gives little help to webmasters I wonder if it helps anyone at all?

One may start a new blog or website from here.. It's really good to know the latest trends before pushing on creating a site.. This will determine what should be needed and what to expect after..

[satyaseo]

haha yahoo has got many this time.....

[phanthom]

This's top search of UK. How can I see about US