Google v Yahoo7: 2008's most popular search terms

From the Age, December 3, 2008 - 11:43AM

Google's Top 10 Australian searches of 2008

1. Games
2. Sydney
3. YouTube
4. MySpace
5. Facebook
6. Google
7. eBay
8. My
9. Weather
10. Hotmail

Yahoo7's Top 10 Australian searches of 2008

1. Britney Spears
2. Heath Ledger
3. Olympics 2008
4. Angelina Jolie & Jessica Alba
5. Stephanie Rice
6. Global economic downturn
7. US election
8. Chinese earthquake
9. Burma Cyclone
10. Large Hadron Collider

Google's 20 fastest rising Australian searches of 2008

1. iPhone
2. Facebook
3. Google Maps
4. YouTube
5. wiki
6. ANZ
7. wow [as in World of Warcraft]
8. Maps
9. Sarah Palin
10. Underbelly
11. beijing 2008
12. stephanie rice
13. Barack Obama
14. Cloverfield
15. Miley Cyrus
16. Firefox 3
17. The Dark Knight
18. Heath Ledger
19. Gossip Girl
20. Zero punctuation

(Yahoo7 has no similar category)

Google Australia's top 10 celebrities searches

1. Barack Obama
2. Chris Brown
3. Miley Cyrus
4. Heath Ledger
5. Britney Spears
6. Chuck Norris
7. Paris Hilton
8. Rihanna
9. Sarah Palin
10. Madonna

Yahoo7's top 10 celebrity searches

1. Britney Spears
2. Angelina Jolie
3. Jessica Alba
4. Miley Cyrus
5. Jennifer Aniston
6. Vanessa Hudgens
7. Zac Efron
8. Katie Holmes
9. Megan Fox
10. Suri Cruise

Google Australia's top 10 Olympian searches

1. Stephanie Rice
2. Usain Bolt
3. Grant Hackett
4. Michael Phelps
5. Eamon Sullivan
6. Leisel Jones
7. Melissa Wu
8. Libby Trickett
9. Lauren Jackson
10. Cadel Evans

Yahoo7's top 10 Olympian searches

1. Stephanie Rice
2. Michael Phelps
3. Eamon Sullivan
4. He Kexin (Chinese gymnast)
5. Emma Snowsill
6. Matthew Mitcham
7. Usain Bolt
8. Liu Xiang (Chinese hurdler)
9. Janos Baranyai (Hungarian weightlifter who dislocated his elbow)
10. Leryn Franco (Paraguayan javelin thrower and model)

Google Australia's top 10 ON TV (most searched TV shows)

1. Big Brother
2. Simpsons
3. Heroes
4. Family Guy
5. Underbelly
6. Home and Away
7. Australian Idol
8. Gossip Girl
9. South Park
10. Neighbours

Google Australia's top 10 movies (most searched 2008 movies)

1. Australia
2. The Dark Knight
3. Indiana Jones
4. Iron Man
5. Hancock
6. Cloverfield
7. Kung Fu Panda
8. Sweeney Todd
9. Quantum of Solace
10. Tropic Thunder

Google Australia's top 5 most searched for weddings

1. Kyle Sandilands wedding
2. Ashlee Simpson wedding
3. Guy Sebastian wedding
4. Ellen deGeneres wedding
5. Beyonce wedding

Google Australia's top 5 most searched for divorces

1. Madonna divorce
2. McCartney divorce
3. Pink divorce
4. Brett Lee divorce
5. Ricki Lee divorce