The Lycos 50 with Aaron Schatz


The Lycos 50


These were the 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the week ending December 30, 2000. For more on how we create this list, see our FAQ. What do the numbers and arrows mean?
1	Christmas
	7 weeks at #1	1\|17

2	Dragonball
	#1 in waiting	2\|72

3	Britney Spears
	#1 for 2000	4\|72

4	Santa Claus
	Jolly fat guy	5\|6

5	Napster
	Music swap	6\|44

6	New Year
	Y2K+1	47\|2

7	clubs
	Still popular	10\|72

8	NFL
	Playoff time	9\|23

9	Final Fantasy
	Video game	12\|70

10	Playstation 2
	Game console	11\|11

11	Pamela Anderson
	Pinup queen	14\|72

12	Tattoos
	Under your skin	15\|72

13	Majora's Mask
	New Zelda game	41\|8

14	WWF
	Pro wrasslers	13\|72

15	Las Vegas
	Sin City USA	19\|72

16	Eminem
	Pasty rapper	8\|36

17	The Sims
	Livin' large	38\|6

18	College Football
	Sooners #1	40\|2

19	Madonna
	Now married	18\|6

20	Tomb Raider
	Movie-to-be	42\|2

21	The IRS
	Refund fever	x\|1

22	Jennifer Lopez
	New CD 1/23	23\|72

23	'N Sync
	#1 boy band	22\|72

24	Christina Aguilera
	#2 teen star	33\|8

25	Digital Cameras
	Say e-cheese	20\|4

26	Edgewater Technology Shooting
	Office tragedy	x\|1

27	Solar Eclipse
	Sky happening	x\|1

28	Diablo II
	Computer game	39\|8

29	Carmen Electra
	Popular pinup	36\|9

30	The Bible
	Good book	21\|69

31	Harry Potter
	Wizard of lit	31\|27

32	The Beatles
	New CD Beatles 1	34\|7

33	Publishers Clearing House
	Gimme money	x\|1

34	NASA
	Space agency	46\|5

35	Snowboarding
	Winter sport	28\|3

36	Backstreet Boys
	#2 boy band	45\|6

37	Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
	Skateboard game	x\|1

38	Claire Swire
	Kinky Londoner	3\|3

39	Anna Kournikova
	Tennis star	x\|1

40	South Park
	Cartoon kids	29\|3

41	Skateboarding
	Teen transport	24\|42

42	Golf
	Popular sport	x\|1

43	Dreamcast
	Game console	x\|1

44	Gnutella
	Napster clone	x\|1

45	Alyssa Milano
	She's charmed	x\|1

46	Sailor Moon
	Anime princess	x\|1

47	clubs
	Young rockers	x\|1

48	The Simpsons
	Cartoon family	27\|52

49	Gundam Wing
	Popular anime	50\|4

50	Montgomery Ward
	Closing stores	x\|1





The things you're searching for.	January 8, 2001

Who Is Toenail Fungus?
Time for another edition of Equally Popular, where we match famous people with other terms which got the same number of Lycos user queries in one week.
This time, we've decided to turn it into a game. Below you'll find two lists, one of ten celebrities and one of ten other searches on Lycos for the week ending December 30, 2000. Try to match up which celebrity had as many searches as which item.
Friends star Jennifer Aniston
President Bill Clinton
Ex-wife Darva Conger
Folk icon Bob Dylan
Singer Janet Jackson
Radio host Rush Limbaugh
Wrestler Stephanie McMahon
Rock scion Lisa Marie Presley
Bush appointee Condoleezza Rice
Recently deceased actor Jason Robards
Dude, Where's My Car?
gout
life insurance
Mormon genealogy
obituaries
Singapore
soccer
stockings
toenail fungus
tropical fish disease
Here's a special bonus question. Five of these six celebrities received the same number of searches last week. The sixth received ten times as many searches as the others! Can you guess which one?
Deceased President John Adams
Ally McBeal star Lisa Nicole Carson
Soccer star Brandi Chastain
Buffalo quarterback Doug Flutie
Rocker Trent Reznor
Spin City star Charlie Sheen
Click here for the answers to today's quiz, and check back tomorrow to see what was popular in the first week of 2001.

Readers Yak Back!

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clubs

Send mail to Aaron at ASchatz@lycos-inc.com.


	The 2000 Web's Most Wanted

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	Archival Goodies

	Check these Lycos 50 reports from the past: Equally Popular: Presidential Edition (Nov. 1999) One To Watch: A Perfect Circle (May 2000) Hooray for Bollywood of the Millenium (Oct. 1999) The Secret Life of Lyrics (Jan. 2000) To scan all our past reports, see our full archives. Or to yak about them, visit our Lycos 50 boards, won't you?




	Lycos 50 Bonus List: Top Comedians:

	The 10 comedians most requested by Lycos users last week: 1. Adam Sandler 2. Jerry Seinfeld 3. Rosie O'Donnell 4. David Letterman 5. Tom Green 6. Jimmy Fallon 7. Christopher Titus 8. Jay Leno 9. Bill Cosby 10. Eddie Izzard For more bonus factoids, see our utterly complete bonus list archives.



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