A week of stability at the top sees Halloween stay atop the Lycos 50. In fact, Halloween searches are up this week, as are searches for costumes (#4), and that other Halloween staple, the pumpkin, enters the list at #36.

While most of the Lycos 50 top ten stays the same, the storm of the moment changes. Hurricane Lili replaces Tropical Storm Isidore at #7. Even though Hurricane Lili was more powerful, the searches for storm-related terms stayed constant from last week to this week.

NEXT MACARENA UPDATE: Remember our August article on the European dance hit "Asereje" by Las Ketchup? The song we predicted would be the next "Macarena" has finally crossed the pond and arrived in the U.S., and the band almost made the Lycos 50 this week, finishing #59.

In order to make things easier on American music fans, the song "Asereje" has been renamed "The Ketchup Song." It's now playing in heavy rotation on Top 40 stations across the country, including New York's influential stations Z100 (38 spins last week) and WKTU (a mind-numbing 57 spins). The album Hijas de Tomate is now called Las Ketchup for its American release, which was moved from August to October 22.

POP TARTS: In other music news, Christina Aguilera (#43) returns to the Lycos 50 for the first time in 16 months thanks to her new single "Dirty," the video for which is. We were considering leaving Christina off the list due to our policy on adult searches. Also hot in trollop pop is actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, now at #53 due to her new album Barenaked.

D'OH: The Simpsons (#38) return to the Lycos 50 for the first time since 2001, but there doesn't seem to be a good reason why. The new season doesn't begin until November.

SHORT SUBJECTS: The arrival of the playoffs moves baseball up from #34 to #14... The Apollo 11 (#42) search mystery continues... Academic stalwart the periodic table of the elements (#49) makes its first appearance of the school year... There were plenty of searches for the challenge round of the yachting competition America's Cup, which began last week... The special Elvis Presley site on Lycos Music gets a little less conversation and a little more action, moving up to #32.

NEW THIS WEEK: Hurricane Lili, pumpkins, The Simpsons, Christina Aguilera, Napster, periodic table, Pokemon.

DROPOUTS: Big Brother 3 (after 19 weeks), September 11, Survivor, Tropical Storm Isidore, Emmy Awards, Madelyne Gorman Toogood and the Irish Travelers.

ONE YEAR AGO: A new version of the file-swapping software KaZaA led that term to rise to #17 on the Lycos 50. It was the beginning of the trend that had KaZaA (now #3) eventually dethrone Morpheus (#31) to become the top file-swapping software online.

TOMORROW: Halloween costume parade 2002!