The Lycos 50
These were the 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the week ending February 26, 2000. For more on how we create this list, see our FAQ.

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1   Pokemon
Japanese phenomenon1|28
2   Britney Spears
Pop music princess 3|28
3   Grammy Awards
Santana wins big x|1
4   Jennifer Lopez
Grammy dress wows 'em 21|28
5   Dragonball
Japanese 'toon 4|28
6   Pam Anderson
Longtime web pinup 7|28
7   The IRS
April 15 nears 6|13
8   The WWF
Pro wrasslin' league 5|28
9   Tattoos
Why so darn hot? 10|28
10   'N Sync
Album out in March 11|28
11   Las Vegas
The new Tinseltown 12|28
12   Nascar
Season underway 13|5
13   Jennifer Lopez's Dress
Grammy hottie x|1
14   Taxes
Annual rite of spring x|1
15   Backstreet Boys
Now trailing 'N Sync 14|28
16   Final Fantasy
Video game series 16|26
17   Black History Month
Ends on March 1 8|4
18   Marijuana
Reefer madness 19|8
19   Mardi Gras
Annual blowout 32|3
20   Christina Aguilera
Grammy-winner 36|9
21   Prom Dresses
Hot spring topic 24|7
22   The Simpsons
Resurgently popular 23|8
23   Korn
Krazy-name band 27|27
24   South Park
Oscar-nominated song 25|28
25   Mariah Carey
Pop songstress 29|23
26   Darva Conger
Made-for-TV bride x|1
27   Jenny McCarthy
New 'Gear' covergirl 31|10
28   The Bible
Sacred text 28|25
29   NASA
Big shuttle interest 30|28
30   Sailor Moon
Cartoon princess 37|11
31   Jessica Biel
Old 'Gear' covergirl 17|3
32   Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?
Nutty TV show 15|2
33   DMX
Happenin' rapper 42|4
34   DVD
Hot video format 26|24
35   Baseball
Spring training time 46|3
36   Tupac Shakur
Legendary rapper 34|7
37   Metallica
Long-lived rock band 41|14
38   Science Fair Projects
Student hottie 33|8
39   Blink 182
Scatalogical band 50|2
40   Carmen Electra
Ex-'Baywatch' star 39|3
41   Shania Twain
Midriff-baring singer 40|27
42   Shakespeare
Soul-baring bard 35|8
43   Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights leader 38|8
44   Rick Rockwell
Blushing 'millionaire' x|1
45   Anna Kournikova
Teen tennis star x|1
46   Sable
Former pro wrassler 48|2
47   Love Poems
Valentines leftover 9|3
48   Madonna
Crooning "American Pie" 44|4
49   Tonya Harding
Hubcap-swingin' skater x|1
50   Harriet Tubman
The 'American Moses' 47|2

 
 
 with Fritz Holznagel
The Lycos 50 Daily Report
 The things you're searching for.March 1, 2000 

Hail, Freedonia!

Lycos is whooping it up this week over the launch of our new free Internet service. Getting in the spirit of things, we at the Lycos 50 scanned last week's search results to see which free things web users asked for most. The top 20:

1.   Free greeting cards
2.   Free games
3.   Free pictures
4.   Free screen savers
5.   Free stuff

6.   Free MP3s
7.   Free ISP
8.   Free chat
9.   Free wallpaper
10.  Free clip art

11.  Free e-mail
12.  Free Internet
13.  Free music
14.  Free downloads
15.  Free web hosting

16.  Free samples
17.  Freebies
18.  Free web pages
19.  Free money
20.  Free fonts

Who'd have guessed greeting cards would be the #1 free request? They're hot, even if nobody can agree what to call them -- the top search-getters: online greeting cards, e-cards, e-mail cards, electronic cards, and virtual cards.

MP3s get more searches than greeting cards overall -- but more people ask for free greeting cards than for free MP3s. Our theory: with old mediums translated online (like greeting cards), people assume they may have to pay; whereas for Internet-specific mediums like MP3s users assume things are already free.

A surprising number of general users pay attention to computer visuals: three of the top 10 items -- screen savers, wallpaper, and clip art -- fall into that category. (A fourth, pictures, is probably more about fans looking for celebrity shots.) During holiday seasons we always get heavy traffic for visuals: "Christmas clip art" or "Halloween screen savers," for instance.

You've got to like the number of people who come online and just want free stuff (#5). Toss in free samples and freebies and you've got three of the top 25 terms. It's one of those basic human urges the Internet plays to so well.

But frankly, what can people be expecting when they type in free money? Or is that how you find venture capital these days?



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