Lycos celebrates five years of Lycos 50
17 September 2004
Internet giant Terra Lycos has announced the fifth anniversary of The Lycos 50.
Lycos launched its first Lycos 50 weekly list on September 15th 1999 and the list has since developed into a popular culture barometer for both the media and consumers.
The Massachusetts-based firm announced that the most searched for terms in September 1999 were the Backstreet Boys and Beanie Babies, while five years later Clay Aiken and Poker top the search league.
Dean Tsouvalas, current writer of The Lycos 50, added: "But through it all, Britney Spears has been consistently the most popular Internet search topic. Britney appeared at number two on our very first Lycos 50 list in Sept. 1999, and she has appeared on every list since then. It's rare for Britney to drop out of the top 10, and she has never fallen out of the top 20 in five years."
Other search terms from the very first list, like Pamela Anderson, NFL and Dragonball, have remained on The Lycos 50 since day one. The WWF, now known as the WWE, Las Vegas, Tattoos, Marijuana and the Bible, also continue to appear on the iconic list each week since its launch.
In 2001, the terrorist attacks on America brought entirely new search terms onto The Lycos 50 and the search terms list was able to provide a barometer of global preoccupations. The beginning of the War on Iraq also brought a number of new topics to The Lycos 50, with Al-Jazeera becoming the new number one term with web users.
"Over the past five years, web users have learned they can turn to the internet to find photos, videos and news they may not be able to get from television broadcasts and newspaper reports," Mr Tsouvalas added.
Janet Jackson's half-time wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl surpassed all other top stories over the past five years, including the 2000 Election, the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion and the beginning of the Iraq War, Lycos reveals.
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