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Obama Doesn't Quite Top Yahoo! Searches of 2008

by Evan Shamoon on December 3, 2008 at 01:48 PM

The polls are in, and it turns out the winner should actually be dancing from one: the term "Britney Spears" was officially more searched for than "Barack Obama" in 2008. While Obama's presidential victory got more attention than any other story on yahoo.com this year, the more toxic of the two had more total hits.

In fact, Obama came in third in overall searches, behind World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as well. Others on Yahoo's top 10 list included American Idol, Japanese manga cartoon series 'Naruto,' online game 'Runescape,' actresses and a grip of actresses including Miley Cyrus, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. Sounds like Yahoo's users are all Us Weekly readers and teenage manga fans.

Oh, and the most searched news stories included "pregnant man." Sigh. For a slightly different profile, check out Google's Marisa Mayer revealing some of Google's top searches of the year on TV. [From: Yahoo!]

Tags: 2008, barack obama, BarackObama, britney spears, BritneySpears, search, trends, yahoo

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