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| Monday's Rising Stars |
Here are today's rising stars -- the search terms which have shown a sharp increase recently... |
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| CHRIS GAINES |
Chris Gaines is a fictional 33-year-old pop star dreamed up by singer Garth Brooks. Brooks just released a real album "by" Gaines; it's a kind of confusing alter-ego deal, like David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust. Well, Brooks pretending to be a bohemian is maybe no crazier than Brooks pretending to be a cowboy. |
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| SELENA |
ABC's premiere of the biopic Selena raised queries for the Tejano star all last week -- perhaps because the network ran the movie with an optional Spanish-language audio track. Starring as Selena was Jennifer Lopez, currently #16 on the Lycos 50. |
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| ENCEPHALITIS |
The New York encephalitis scare is still making people jittery. We're seeing rising searches on "encephalitis" and -- easier to spell -- "Nile". (The disease is now thought to be akin to West Nile fever.) |
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| REAGAN |
The brouhaha over Edmund Morris's Ronald Reagan memoir has hit the web. People seem to be searching on Reagan, not on the author or the title ("Dutch"). See our news flash for the latest. |
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| JC PENNEY |
The department store chain is trying to get hip by sponsoring a mini-tour of the bands Sixpence None the Richer and Better Than Ezra, with the groups popping into JC Penney stores for autograph sessions along the way. Seems to be working: searches are up. (See the special "I say Penny, you say Penneys" bonus list below right.) |
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| Mystery Terms |
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What's with...
BUDDHISM
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SPANDEX?
Both were up noticably last week. (Not related, I presume?)
Also: I'll keep mentioning GOUT until someone explains why so many people search for it. Last week gout got more searches than "Federal Express" or even Hello Kitty, for crying out loud.
Explanations, anyone? Please speak up on the boards.
For previous mystery terms, visit the Lycos 50 archives.
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| Case Closed! |
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Recent mystery terms dissected:
Regarding DURAN, cheerful correspondent Jeff Chapman writes: "Try Chris Duran, a popular pretty boy type Spanish singing artist... Maybe has a new single out?" We're not sure about the single, but he's right about the pretty boy part.
Also, we may have discovered what old rockers Duran Duran are up to these days.
Two astute scribes suggested that the rush on GUNS could be traced to the back-from-the-dead appearance of Guns n' Roses. The group's first album in years is due sometime this fall. Tip o' the Lycos 50 cap to Jeff Chapman and to Jon Reeves of the IMDB.
TITANIC queries could be the result of Gloria Stuart's book tour, suggests user boards Stuart (who played the 104-year-old dame in the film) has just written an autobiography, "I Just Kept Hoping."
FROGS. Here's another take on this ongoing puzzler: reader boards writes, "Unfortunately people have been finding a lot of bizarrely deformed frogs lately." (The message also includes a link to some very odd deformed frog photos.) Could this be the cause of the rush on frogs?
Earlier, users Cole and Brigtoofar suggested that hurricane sufferers may be wondering how to handle boards. If frog searches continue next week, we'll know that's probably not it.
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| Lycos 50 Bonus List:
Top 6 Ways to Search for JC Penney |
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In order, the ways Lycos users most often search for JC Penney stores:
1. JC Penney
2. JC Penny
3. JC Penneys
4. JC Pennys
5. J.C. Penney
6. JC Penney catalogue
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Friday, October 1
Anne Geddes' cute babies, plus: Quilt Mania! | |
Thursday, September 30
Gina, Ally & Xena:
Special fall TV edition | |
Wednesday, September 29
Powerpuffs, witch trials & überteen Harry Potter | |
Tuesday, September 28
This week's Top 50 | |
Monday, September 27
Shakira vs. Dolly Parton | |
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