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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Re: Words of the Year

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 2 at 2:08 PM

Yahoo announced its most-searched words for 2008. Do you know what they are?

Britney Spears.

britney_spears_shopping_00.jpgSeriously, Yahoo users? We have an election and a financial crisis and you're still—for the fourth year in a row—looking up Britney Spears? Can't we find a new hot mess? Unless it can be proved that Yahoo is the new AOL—the place where people who don't know how to use the internet use the internet—this is all very depressing to me.

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I can't prove it, but I would have to say that only idiots use yahoo. Google is where the reasonable intelligent search.

Posted by Frank Rizzo on December 2, 2008 at 2:14 PM
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You can still search on Yahoo?

Posted by boxofbirds on December 2, 2008 at 2:21 PM
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Get with the times, people. "Hot mess" was last year. Britney's story now is "comeback".

Posted by Fnarf on December 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM
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This kind of makes me want to kill myself...

Posted by MadDog on December 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM
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I thought we were through with this, but she keeps popping up everywhere one turns. The fact that one of her chilluns was hospitalized recently was the lead headline on a lot online news sites.That's probably because she has a good publicist who believes in payola. Also, #1 download this week is "Womanizer."

I guess people think she's fuckable again and that always trumps talent. I see her as a Republican tool-ette (remember how she dug Bush?) who has in the past been very, very lucky.

Posted by Bauhaus on December 2, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Posted by josh on December 2, 2008 at 2:56 PM
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The number of terms one might use to search for shit about the election or the financial crisis is likely great, whereas the number for Brittney Spears is likely small.

Posted by sgiffy on December 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM
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FOR THE YEAR, Paul. For the year. Calm down.

Posted by EmilyP on December 2, 2008 at 3:19 PM
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Love me!!!!11!!!!

Posted by Britney on December 2, 2008 at 3:19 PM
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I Yahooed "Britney Spears Vagina" and got 9,700,000 hits, but only got 2,950,000 hits on Google.

Posted by elswinger on December 2, 2008 at 6:28 PM
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It just shows the kind of people who still use Yahoo, as opposed to the rest of humanity, which is comfortably sitting on google.

Posted by Vasya on December 2, 2008 at 6:32 PM
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No, most people search for porn or MySpace, but that doesn't make fun PR puff pieces that they can use to get media attention on Yahoo other than all the nasty financial stuff. (Full disclosure, and a check of your IP log will show this: I work at Yahoo. In Search, even. I still use Google sometimes, but Yahoo search doesn't suck, which I didn't know when I started here a few months ago.)

Posted by tonsai on December 2, 2008 at 7:21 PM
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I guess people like looking at her pussy!

Posted by Vince on December 3, 2008 at 7:20 AM

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