Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Yahoo Year in Review 2008

Thought you might find this interesting: You can see Yahoo Article HERE

Top 10 Searches for 2008
1Britney Spears
2WWE
3Barack Obama
4Miley Cyrus
5RuneScape
6Jessica Alba
7Naruto
8Lindsay Lohan
9Angelina Jolie
10American Idol
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Top 2008 Trends
News
Anyone who watched the stock market or presidential polls knows 2008 was a year of highs and lows. Politics and pocket books dominated both News and Search, but wild weather ...
1Hurricanes
2Caylee and Casey Anthony
3Election 2008
4Pakistan
5Pregnant Man
6China
7Iraq
8Shelley Malil
9Patrick Swayze
10Afghanistan
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Celebrity Brat Pack

If there are two things that Hollywood is constantly looking for, they are the next big thing and the latest celebrity scandal. In 2008, tabloid staples cleaned up their acts due to...
1Miley Cyrus
2Vanessa Anne Hudgens
3Chris Brown
4Jonas Brothers
5Rihanna
6Taylor Swift
7Jamie Lynn Spears
8Hayden Panettiere
9Zac Efron
10Selena Gomez
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Olympians

The Olympic Games motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" means "swifter, higher, stronger"-and the 2008 edition was also bigger, in every way. For 18 magical days in August, China threw...
1Michael Phelps
2Leryn Franco
3Serena Williams
4Kobe Bryant
5Shawn Johnson
6Jennie Finch
7Misty May Treanor
8Ronaldinho
9Alicia Sacramone
10Nastia Liukin
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Politicians

What a year. Can we exhale yet? Even with the demise of Wall Street (and our 401ks), the thing people will remember most about this year was the American presidential election...
1Barack Obama
2Sarah Palin
3John McCain
4Hillary Clinton
5George Bush
6Ron Paul
7John Edwards
8Mike Huckabee
9Arnold Schwarzenegger
10Mitt Romney
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Influential Women

Females make up more than half the U.S. population, so a category devoted to women smacks of, well, a separate-but-equal standing. But with two women coming so close to the nation's two... 1Angelina Jolie
2Sarah Palin
3Oprah Winfrey
4Hillary Clinton
5Gina Carano
6Tina Fey
7Michelle Obama
8Katie Couric
9Barbara Walters
10Dara Torres
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Economy

It is the economy. The $700 billion bailout. Foreclosures. The plummeting stock market. As 2008 came to a close, the nation's economic turmoil battled with the presidential election...
1IRS Stimulus Checks
2Oil Prices
3Gold Prices
4Gas Prices
5Dow Jones
6Sallie Mae
7Stock Market
8AIG
9Foreclosures
10Debt Consolidaton
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Farewells

Everyone's time comes up sooner or later, and a personality's passing prompts respect be paid to his or her legacy. Departures that shock the Web world-like that of wildlife expert and...
1Heath Ledger
2Bernie Mac
3Paul Newman
4Randy Pausch
5George Carlin
6Estelle Getty
7Tim Russert
8Brad Renfro
9Isaac Hayes
10Boyd Coddington
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