A recent compilation of the 200 most popular
keywords submitted to the Yahoo! Search engine offers some insights about the types of
individuals that prowl the Web. Namely, that
they're hung up on sex, porn, and Pamela Lee Anderson. Of the top 20 keywords, 12
were sex-related, including "porn," "porno," and
"pornography." "Baywatch" babe Pam Anderson racked up 172,760
inquiries in a recent month to place 12th--two places behind "weather," 10
places ahead of "Microsoft," and 92 slots before "Bob Dole."
Other Observations:
"Metallica" (59) finished just ahead of "real estate" and "stock
quotes"; at No. 82 "anal sex" was just before "cars" and
"USA Today"; and "Days of Our Lives" (91) came up more frequently than
"marijuana" (93) and "Beatles" (111). People were more interested in
"Las Vegas" (56) than "New York" (157) or "Seattle" (196).
"Yahoo" itself ranked 163rd, causing Mark Grimes, an online advertiser who
publicized the list, to comment: "Why do 39,440 people a month look up
"Yahoo" on Yahoo!?" Maybe too many ate lead paint as children."
The Top 50:
sex, chat, Playboy, Netscape
software, nude, porno, games, porn, weather, Penthouse, Pamela Anderson, pornography,
pussy, Persian Kitty, maps, Halloween, music, adult, chat rooms, erotica, Microsoft,
jokes, shareware, magazines, pictures, employment, jobs, erotic, gay, Jenny McCarthy,
Netscape, bondage, lingerie, hardcore, Cindy Crawford, Hustler, ESPN, supermodels, Disney,
Star Wars, girls, movies, Star Trek, mIRC, genealogy, screen savers, Japan, soccer, and
tits.
Top 51-100:
nude celebrities, nudity,
MPEG, nudes, MTV, Las Vegas, NASA, travel, Metallica, real estate, stock quotes, golf, sex
stories, lesbian, CNN, sports, quake, Hewlett Packard, IRC, Simpsons, gay sex, Nirvana,
X-files, Madonna, sex pictures, horoscope, football, map, Java, MIDI, fuck, anal sex,
cars, USA Today, recipes, education, Mexico, airlines, HTML, free sex, Days of Our Lives,
Australia, marijuana, NFL, India, Pearl Jam, babes, wrestling, Hong Kong, and history.