The Lycos 50
These were the 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the week ending April 7, 2001. For more on how we create this list, see our FAQ.

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1   Dragonball
Back on top3|86
2   IRS
Taxmen 6|15
3   Britney Spears
Pepsi tart 4|86
4   Easter
April 15 12|3
5   Napster
Scramble for alternatives 5|68
6   Pokemon
Movie #3 out 9|86
7   Tattoos
Under your skin 7|86
8   The Masters
Tiger, again x|1
9   WWF
Buys WCW 10|86
10   Taxes
April 16 14|11
11   Jennifer Lopez
Actress/singer 1|86
12   Baseball
Nomomania! 18|10
13   Pamela Anderson
Popular pinup 13|86
14   Final Fantasy
Video game and summer movie 15|84
15   Survivor
Nick gone 16|10
16   Las Vegas
Sin City USA 11|86
17   Golf
In full swing 22|15
18   Marijuana
Popular leaf 19|14
19   Anna Kournikova
Win her stuff in Lycos contest 20|8
20   The Bible
Good book 23|83
21   Black and White
God game 41|2
22   Prom Dresses
Girls wear 'em 25|13
23   Passover
Matzah time x|1
24   NASCAR
Racing circuit 17|10
25   Harry Potter
Wizard of lit 24|41
26   Skateboarding
Teen transport 28|56
27   The Simpsons
Cartoon clan 31|66
28   Gnutella
File swapper 26|9
29   Spy Plane Incident
China standoff x|1
30   The Sims
House party 37|6
31   World War II
Study topic 32|7
32   Eminem
Slim shameless 30|50
33   Shakespeare
The Bard 35|13
34   The Holocaust
Never forget 39|4
35   Prom Hairstyles
Some wear it up x|1
36   NASA
Space racers 42|19
37   Tupac Shakur
#1 album 44|2
38   The Census
Count on it 36|4
39   Playstation 2
Game system 38|25
40   Madonna
Material girl 34|4
41   Half-Life Counter-Strike
Violent game 40|4
42   Foot and Mouth Disease
Euro plague 27|6
43   Destiny's Child
R&B trio x|1
44   Digimon
Not Pokemon x|1
45   'N Sync
Rebounding 50|86
46   Adolf Hitler
WWII villain 29|3
47   Limp Bizkit
Angry rockers 46|2
48   Carmen Electra
Popular pinup x|1
49   Star Wars
Episode II in production x|1
50   April Fool's Day
For jokers 45|2

 
 
 with Aaron Schatz
The Lycos 50 Daily Report
 The things you're searching for.April 13, 2001 

Brad Pitt and the Pussycats

It's time for another round of our favorite game, Equally Popular. This time we'll take a look at this spring's movies and equally popular movie stars.

Each of the below movies is set to be released in April or May. Each is ranked based on last week's searches, in order. We also included the movie's release date. Pearl Harbor got the most searches, although it is tough to determine how many of these searches were for the movie.

We're expecting Josie and the Pussycats to make the Lycos 50 next Tuesday, as it has been rising fast and furious for four weeks. It needs to double in searches this week, which is very possible since it came out Wednesday.

By the way, you can find showtimes for any of the movies currently released at Lycos Movies.

  Pearl Harbor (May 25)
  Russell Crowe

  Josie and the Pussycats (this week)
  Brad Pitt

  Blow (last week)
  Elizabeth Hurley

  Bridget Jones' Diary (This week)
  Bruce Lee

  Spy Kids (March 30)
  Demi Moore

  Along Came a Spider (last week)
  Freddie Prinze Jr.

  The Mummy Returns(May 4)
  Kate Hudson

  Just Visiting (last week)
  Jennifer Connelly

  Freddy Got Fingered (April 20)
  Bruce Willis

  Joe Dirt (this week)
  James Dean

  Driven (April 27)
  Jodie Foster

  Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles(April 20)
  Seth Green

  Kingdom Come (this week)
  Holly Hunter

  Shrek (May 18)
  Mark Harmon

  A Knight's Tale (May 11)
  Selma Blair

  Angel Eyes (May 18)
  Beverly D'Angelo

  Town and Country (April 27)
  Samuel L. Jackson

* * *

Finally, we want to say something about a movie opening in June, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. This was a project that Stanley Kubrick worked on for twenty years; when he died, Steven Spielberg took it over. It stars Haley Joel Osment from The Sixth Sense as a robotic boy.

We're not noticing that many searches for the movie yet, although searches for artificial intelligence have been rising very slowly over the past three months. But we wanted to let readers know about the deep, rich online world that has been secretly built around the movie.

To see what we mean, check out Lycos searches for these places and things:

Bangalore World University
Evan Chan
Jeanine Salla
Sentient Property Crime Bureau
Martin Swinton Designs

By the way, if your browser tells you that don't conform to "Earth-Net 39 standard," don't worry. That won't be invented for at least a hundred years.



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    1. Shania Twain
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    5. George Strait
    6. Dixie Chicks
    7. Garth Brooks
    8. Dolly Parton
    9. Jessica Andrews
    10. Sara Evans

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