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Bebo, Paris Hilton Top Google Searches

December 24, 2006 by Raj | Filed under Uncategorized

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Celebrity bad-girl Paris Hilton and social networking Web site Bebo were the hottest topics on Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) in 2006, the superstar online search engine revealed.

The “Year-End Google Zeitgeist” top ten lists for general and news searches on the Internet Free How-To Guide for Small Business Web Strategies - from domain name selection to site promotion. showed global interest in online socializing and video viewing, as well as World Cup soccer, cancer, autism, celebrities and Hurricane Katrina.

General Web Searches

Young Web site Bebo, where users share videos, pictures and music and seek former schoolmates, ranked ahead of MySpace Latest News about MySpace, another teen-oriented social networking site, in the Google list of most popular general searches.

World Cup soccer ranked third, with the remaining top-ten queries focused on video sharing, radio blogging and wikis, which are Web sites open to editing by visitors.

The Spanish word “rebelde” placed eighth in the general search rankings, with query results including a popular band, a video-sharing Web site, and a television series.
Online News Searches

Hilton, who starred in the reality television show “The Simple Life,” topped the list of the most frequent Google news searches, with actor Orlando Bloom ranking second.

Hunts for cancer news ranked third, followed by podcasting, Hurricane Katrina, and bankruptcy in that order.

Swiss tennis star Martina Hingis was seventh on the news search list, ahead of autism, the U.S. National Football League draft, and the television show “Celebrity Big Brother.”

MySpace topped the general searches and singer Janet Jackson the news searches at Google in 2005.

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One Response to “Bebo, Paris Hilton Top Google Searches”

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