A week overflowing with interesting events deserves an extra page:
OH CANADA: Last week we wrote about how "that other election" in Canada was getting a lot of searches. This week searches for results from last Monday put the Canadian Election at #17. Canadians favored (or shall I say, "favoured") Liberal Party leader Jean Chretien, sending him back to Ottawa for a third term as prime minister.
NOT HOT: David Blaine (#12) is the magician who was encased in ice in Times Square for two-and-a-half days as part of his TV special David Blaine: Frozen in Time which aired last Wednesday. Blaine seemed pretty shaken up when he finally emerged from the ice, which explains a good number of searches for "David Blaine's condition" and "How is David Blaine?"
Speaking of ice, Titanic (#41) returns to the Lycos 50 for the first time since April 18, thanks to NBC's broadcast of the film last Sunday.
GET PAID: Every so often the twenty-state Powerball lottery gets a jackpot so large that Lycos queries shoot up, and last week was one of those weeks. Searches for the numbers that could win $131 million put the November 29 Powerball drawing at #32. 14 workers at the Sandia nuclear plant in Albequerque, New Mexico will share the prize.
SAY GOODBYE: Japanese anime princess Sailor Moon falls out of the Lycos 50 after exactly 50 weeks on the list. Time will tell if she may return, but the drop in searches over the past few weeks has been significant and consistent.
SANTA LIKES FLICKS: It doesn't make the Lycos 50 but searches for The X-Men go up about 50% after the DVD is released. Searches for the term DVD are also up significantly, which shows there will be a lot of movies under the tree this year.
MYSTERY TERM: Why the sudden interest in the Napster-like computer service Gnutella? It has come close to the Lycos 50 for two weeks now. If you know something we don't, please let us know on the boards.
Return to this week's Lycos 50.
