It hasn't been a good a year for the WWF. A year ago they had just bought WCW to establish a wrestling monopoly, and it looked like they were about to launch into their most successful storyline ever, pitting the two most successful national wrestling promotions against each other.

One year later, it has been an unmitigated disaster. The "WCW invasion" was butchered. The WWF originally planned to relaunch WCW as a separate brand, but got stuck combining the two with no benefit. Not only did the WWF not pick up WCW viewership in the ratings, WWF television ratings actually went down. The same fall took place on the Internet, where WWF went from #4 in 2000 to #10 in 2001.

The WWF is still pretty popular, though, and this Sunday is Wrestlemania X-8 (that's Vince McMahon-speak for "18"), so we decided to take another look at the top wrestlers online. Once again, the scantily-clad WWF divas take many of the top slots. We've left off two of those divas who left the WWF, but we left a couple of retired male wrestlers on the list to demonstrate a point.

Here are the top 20 wrestlers searched over the past four weeks, with last year's rankings in parentheses:

1) Trish Stratus (1)
2) Stephanie McMahon (5)
3) Lita (4)
4) The Rock (3)
5) Stacy Keibler (-)
6) Hulk Hogan (-)
7) Goldberg (8)
8) Triple H (9)
9) Stone Cold Steve Austin (7)
10) Torrie Wilson (-)

11) Terri Runnels (14)
12) Jeff Hardy (-)
13) The Undertaker (6)
14) Kevin Nash (19)
15) Rob Van Dam (-)
16) Scott Hall (-)
17) Kane (10)
18) Shawn Michaels (18)
19) Kurt Angle (20)
20) Bret Hart (-)

Once again, the WWF women score high on the Internet. The two ladies who came over from WCW, Stacey Keibler and Torrie Wilson, have become very popular. Stephanie McMahon's position at #2 will agonize the online wrestling junkies but remember, breast implants + constant TV time = Internet searches.

As for the women who aren't here, both Sable and Chyna are out of the WWF, and are now better known as Playboy models than as ex-wrestlers. They each go by their real names now, Rena Mero (Sable) and Joanie Laurer (Chyna), but still get about 75 percent of their searches under their wrestling names.

If we included Sable and Chyna on this list, they would be #3 and #4, but the Internet is about the only place where they are still popular. You haven't heard a lot about Rena Mero's movie career, have you?

Note to Trish Stratus: Doing Playboy good for career. Leaving WWF bad for career.

The Hardy Boyz are the WWF's most popular tag-team online, unless you count the reformed nWo (who are more a faction than a tag team). #12 Jeff Hardy, one-half of the Hardy Boyz, gets three times as many searches as brother Matt Hardy.

The nWo return hasn't had a huge impact on ratings, but all three members (Hogan, Nash, and Hall) have seen searches increase, and all three show up in the top 20.

Speaking of WCW, we left former WCW champion Bill Goldberg on to show how his absence has really hurt the WWF in attracting ex-WCW fans. Despite not having wrestled in over a year, he gets more searches than the WWF's biggest stars like Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart are also retired, though that's what we thought about Hulk Hogan last year so you never know. Ex-WCW wrestler Scott Steiner, who like Goldberg hasn't showed up in the WWF yet, just misses this list as well.

The biggest name missing from this list? WWF champion Chris Jericho doesn't even make the top 25 wrestlers, finishing behind Booker T. and the late, great Andre the Giant. So much for the living legend.

TOMORROW: Top beers, in honor of St. Patrick's Day.