The things you're searching for.	October 25, 2000

Robert E vs. Spike Lee Do Web users prefer the present to the past? Below are famous names in 12 pairs: one name historical, one a modern entertainment figure. Your job: decide which got more user searches on Lycos last week. Here we go: (A) Historical 1. Samuel Clemens 2. John Paul Jones 3. Queen Elizabeth I 4. Henry Ford 5. Robert E. Lee 6. Ethan Allen 7. Andrew Jackson 8. Leonardo DaVinci 9. Alex. Graham Bell 10. Capt. James Cook 11. Susan B. Anthony 12. Henry Moore (B) Modern Roger Clemens Paula Jones Shannon Elizabeth Harrison Ford Spike Lee Woody Allen Janet Jackson Leonardo DiCaprio Alex Rodriguez Rachael Leigh Cook Marc Anthony Mary Tyler Moore The winners: 1-A, 2-B, 3-B, 4-A, 5-A, 6-A, 7-B, 8-A, 9-A, 10-A, 11-A, 12-A. Call it a rout for the forces of history. 9-3 is maybe not an overwhelming lead, but some of the individual matchups are shocking: DaVinci over DiCaprio? Captain Cook over teen heartthrob Rachael Leigh Cook? Abstract sculptor Henry Moore over rerun queen Mary Tyler Moore? There's no doubting that the tops of our weekly logs are dominated by the Pam Andersons and Darva Congers of the world. But despair not, champions of civilization: down in the web traffic trenches Susan B. Anthony is whacking salsa sensation Marc Anthony over the head with a protest sign, and crusty Samuel Clemens is hurling a broken bat at Roger Clemens. By the way, the Clemens searches all happened last week, before Roger's Sunday night tantrum. But it's amazing that in the heat of the playoffs Samuel Clemens could beat his modern namesake -- and that's not even counting searches for Mark Twain.

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