The Lycos 50
These were the 50 most popular Lycos user searches for the week ending October 13, 2001. For more on how we create this list, see our FAQ.

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1   Osama Bin Laden
Scary3|5
2   Halloween
Scarier 2|9
3   Anthrax
Scariest 20|4
4   Dragonball
Popular cartoon 4|113
5   World Trade Center
Terror target 1|5
6   Afghanistan
War target 10|5
7   Costumes
Halloween fave 6|6
8   Morpheus
Top file swap 7|19
9   American Flag
Rally round it 5|5
10   Britney Spears
Not dead 11|113
11   NFL
Pro pigskin 9|11
12   FBI
On the case 37|5
13   Taliban
Come, tally me banana 25|5
14   Nostradamus
Knew stuff 8|5
15   Pokemon
Kids love it 14|113
16   Tattoos
Skin is in 13|113
17   Terrorism
We fight it 12|5
18   Harry Potter
Wizard of lit 15|68
19   Pamela Anderson
Popular pinup 18|113
20   Al-Jazeera
Arab news network x|1
21   Christmas
2 months away 31|4
22   Islam
Religion in the news 27|5
23   The Bible
Good book 21|110
24   KaZaA
#2 file swap 17|13
25   Las Vegas
Sin City USA 16|113
26   WWF
Pro wrasslers 28|113
27   Jennifer Lopez
She's married 22|113
28   Golf
Tiger's sport 24|42
29   Bert is Evil
Osama's new pal x|1
30   Skateboarding
Teen transport 30|83
31   Rush Limbaugh
Going deaf x|1
32   Audiogalaxy
#3 file swap 44|3
33   Napster
#4 file swap 33|85
34   Windows XP
New software 46|3
35   Christopher Columbus
He's got a day x|1
36   Pumpkins
Eat or carve x|1
37   Baseball
73 for Bonds 36|3
38   New York
Recovering 26|5
39   The Sims
Computer game 41|3
40   Neopets
Virtual pets 47|3
41   Survivor
Reality show x|1
42   Diets
Starvation nation 34|4
43   Final Fantasy
Video games 38|111
44   Playstation 2
Game console 49|2
45   Marijuana
Hot weed 39|2
46   Viagra
Popular drug 40|3
47   NASCAR
Auto racers 43|3
48   The Simpsons
Cartoon family 48|3
49   Anna Kournikova
Tennis hottie x|1
50   Gas Masks
Popular protection 19|4

 
 
 with Aaron Schatz
The Lycos 50 Daily Report
 The things you're searching for.October 22, 2001 

Greek to Me

On Friday, we wrote about how a number of academic subjects were way down in search traffic this year. One of those subjects is Greek mythology, but that doesn't mean mythology searches have gone away all together.

Therefore, we thought we would take a look at the most-searched figures from Greek mythology. Here they are:

1)  Zeus
2)  Apollo
3)  Eros
4)  Aphrodite
5)  Aries
6)  Poseidon
7)  Hermes
8)  Hades
9)  Athena
10) Prometheus
11) Pan
12) Artemis

It is fitting that the man in charge (or is that god in charge) tops our list. Zeus receives as any searches as the British band Coldplay or the TV show Ally McBeal. He must be the subject of a lot of school reports.

We actually didn't include the figure from Greek mythology with the more searches, Atlas. That's because we are assuming Lycos searches wanted the atlas that shows you the world, not the Atlas that held it up.

Lycos has ton of information if you want to know more about Greek mythology, including this list of all the gods and related figures.

Other popular Greek searches include Greek alphabet, Greek architecture, and the spice fenugreek. What do you make with fenugreek, anyway?

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