The Lycos 50
These were the 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the week ending July 21, 2001. For more on how we create this list, see our FAQ.

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1   Dragonball
10th week at #11|101
2   IRS
Tax rebaters 7|30
3   Tour de France
Bike race 4|3
4   Big Brother
Controversial reality show 2|9
5   British Open
Golf tourney x|1
6   Britney Spears
Pop tart 3|101
7   Tattoos
Skin is in 5|101
8   Final Fantasy
Movie tanks 6|99
9   Napster
Back online 8|73
10   WWF
Stone Cold turns 12|101
11   Pokemon
Not Digimon 16|101
12   Golf
Tiger's sport 13|30
13   Pamela Anderson
Still hot 9|101
14   Morpheus
Hot file swap 10|7
15   Las Vegas
Sin City USA 11|101
16   Harry Potter
Wizard of lit 18|56
17   Jennifer Lopez
Rising again 27|101
18   'N Sync
New CD today 33|11
19   NASCAR
Auto racers 14|9
20   Jurassic Park III
#1 movie x|1
21   The Bible
Good book 26|98
22   Diablo II
Computer game 22|8
23   Chandra Levy
Missing intern 23|3
24   Baseball
National pastime 20|25
25   Angelina Jolie
She's Lara Croft 21|8
26   Tax Rebate
300 damn dollars 42|2
27   Audiogalaxy
#3 file swap 17|7
28   Gnutella
#4 file swap 25|24
29   Madonna
Tour hits USA 45|19
30   Tomb Raider
Movie and game 24|8
31   The Sims
You control 'em 31|21
32   Half-Life Counter-Strike
Violent game 30|19
33   Skateboarding
Teen transport 40|71
34   Anna Kournikova
Tennis star 28|23
35   Marijuana
Popular weed 38|29
36   Playstation 2
Game console 46|2
37   KaZaA
Yet another file swap x|1
38   Diets
Slim summer 32|13
39   Blink-182
Pop punks 34|6
40   Neopets
Virtual pets 35|5
41   The Simpsons
Cartoon family 44|81
42   Carmen Electra
Hot pinup 36|8
43   Destiny's Child
R&B trio 50|7
44   Backstreet Boys
Tour cancelled 29|2
45   NASA
Space racers 39|2
46   Mariah Carey
New CD 8/21 x|1
47   Star Trek
Sci-fi standard 41|2
48   Eminem
Slim shameless 47|65
49   Digimon
Not Pokemon 48|2
50   The Fast and the Furious
Vroom vroom 37|5

 
 
 with Aaron Schatz
The Lycos 50 Daily Report
 The things you're searching for.July 30 - August 1, 2001 

2001: An Entertainment Odyssey

The Lycos 50 is going on vacation for the next couple of days. We'll be back with a new Lycos 50 list on Thursday, when we'll get to see which movie is bigger online -- Jurassic Park III, or Planet of the Apes.

In the meantime, to tide everyone over, here's a look at the year so far. We recently compiled these lists for the People magazine 2001 almanac. They represent what entertainment and entertainers have been popular so far this year.

TOP ACTRESSES

1)  Pamela Anderson
2)  Jennifer Lopez
3)  Angelina Jolie
4)  Jennifer Love Hewitt
5)  Alyssa Milano
6)  Jessica Alba
7)  Shannon Elizabeth
8)  Denise Richards
9)  Nikki Cox
10) Sarah Michelle Gellar

TOP ACTORS

1)  Brad Pitt
2)  Russell Crowe
3)  Tom Cruise
4)  Josh Hartnett
5)  Heath Ledger
6)  Bruce Lee
7)  Keanu Reeves
8)  Mel Gibson
9)  Ben Affleck
10) Vin Diesel

TOP MUSICIANS

1)  Britney Spears
2)  Jennifer Lopez
3)  Eminem
4)  'N Sync
5)  Madonna
6)  Limp Bizkit
7)  Christina Aguilera
8)  Destiny's Child
9)  Backstreet Boys
10) Metallica

TOP MOVIES
(Includes movies from past years)

1)  Pearl Harbor
2)  Star Wars
3)  Lord of the Rings
4)  Tomb Raider
5)  The Matrix
6)  Titanic
7)  Final Fantasy
8)  Hannibal
9)  The Mummy Returns
10) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

TOP TV SHOWS
(Includes cartoons)

1)  Dragonball
2)  Pokemon
3)  Survivor
4)  The Simpsons
5)  Digimon
6)  Sailor Moon
7)  South Park
8)  Big Brother
9)  Gundam Wing
10) The Sopranos

Note: Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider totals do not include searches which specify the video games, only generic searches and movie-specifying searches. And I'll never forget Macho Grande.



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