The Lycos 50
These were the 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the week ending February 19, 2000. For more on how we create this list, see our FAQ.

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1   Pokemon
Still tops1|27
2   Valentine's Day
For surfin' lovers 2|4
3   Britney Spears
Pop music princess 3|27
4   Dragonball
Japanese 'toon 4|27
5   The WWF
Pro wrassling league 6|27
6   The IRS
April 15 nears 5|12
7   Pamela Anderson
"VIP" actress 7|27
8   Black History Month
Still very strong 8|3
9   Love Poems
Valentines hottie 15|2
10   Tattoos
Tribal fave 9|27
11   'N Sync
Album due in march 10|27
12   Las Vegas
The new Tinseltown 11|27
13   Nascar
Boost from Daytona 500 19|4
14   Backstreet Boys
Unseated by 'N Sync 13|27
15   Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?
Hot Fox TV show x|1
16   Final Fantasy
Video game series 14|25
17   Jessica Biel
In 'Gear' mag 29|2
18   Charles Schulz
Late, great cartoonist x|1
19   Marijuana
Reefer madness 16|7
20   The Oscars
Nominations arrive x|1
21   Jennifer Lopez
Latin singer/actress 20|27
22   Gear Magazine
Biel cover hot stuff 36|2
23   The Simpsons
Cartoon family 22|7
24   Prom Dresses
Hot spring topic 17|6
25   South Park
Crude 'toon 24|27
26   DVD
Hot new format 23|23
27   Korn
Krazy-name band 26|26
28   The Bible
Sacred text 21|24
29   Mariah Carey
Pop songstress 25|22
30   NASA
Shuttle lands safely 31|27
31   Jenny McCarthy
Inexplicably popular 27|9
32   Mardi Gras
Annual blowout 39|2
33   Science Fair Projects
Student hottie 18|7
34   Tupac Shakur
Legendary rapper 32|6
35   Shakespeare
Legendary bard 28|7
36   Christina Aguilera
Hot teen singer 34|8
37   Sailor Moon
Cartoon princess 30|10
38   Martin Luther King
Civil rights leader 33|7
39   Carmen Electra
Ex-'Baywatch' star 37|2
40   Shania Twain
Midriff-baring singer 41|26
41   Metallica
Long-lived rock band 42|13
42   DMX
Happenin' rapper 48|3
43   NBA
Pro hoops league x|1
44   Madonna
Redoes "American Pie" 43|3
45   Rosa Parks
Bus-riding heroine 38|2
46   Baseball
Spring training time 47|2
47   Harriet Tubman
The 'American Moses' x|1
48   Sable
Former pro wrassler x|1
49   Sally Hemings
Jefferson's mistress? x|1
50   Blink 182
Scatological band x|1

 
 
 with Fritz Holznagel
The Lycos 50 Daily Report
 The things you're searching for.February 24, 2000 

Thursday Tidbits

Here's a quick run through our latest emerging queries report...

OTC MANIA?
We're watching a recent rise in queries for OTC and OTC BB. OTC is "over the counter" for you neophytes, and OTC BB is a quote service that handles info on OTC stocks. We're wondering if investors addicted to triple-digit annual returns are now looking to penny stocks for the Next Big Thing.

X.COM
Another fast-rising financial term: X.com. This is one of those new "financial supermarket" sites, offering mutual funds and banking and heaven knows what else. Several companies are competing in that field, but X.com seems to have the early lead with searchers.

(Shameless product pitch: scads of juicy financial info is available at Lycos Investing.)

X-MEN
X.com isn't the only hot "X" query. X-Men: The Movie is getting lots of early interest in the summer cinema sweepstakes. The flick, featuring Patrick Stewart as good-guy Professor Xavier and Sir Ian McKellen as baddie Magneto, opens in July.

(Tempus Fugit: remember cute li'l Anna Paquin, the 10-year-old who won an Oscar for The Piano? She's in this movie as the sexy Rogue, a bodacious mutant who absorbs the powers of anyone she touches.)

DRAGONBALL BUZZ
Speaking of super-duper sci-fi characters: we got a huge amount of feedback on last Friday's report on Dragonball. See our message boards for all the boards -- most of it insisting that Dragonball really IS popular in the offline world.

Side note: like many Dragonball fans, the archdiocese of Mexico City is now officially bashing Pokemon. The church's opinion: "Behind the huge merchandising phenomenon one finds, as in many Japanese cartoons, a combination of elements that incite violence and sexual perversion among children." Ouch!



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