New York (Reuters) – The death of Michael Jackson the singer was even raised to the top of the search yahoo.com, ending the four-year domination of Britney Spears and Barack Obama slammed President from a list of the top 10.
Although this year is dominated by the recession, most visitors are drawn to what is interesting network surfer. NASCAR, actress Megan Fox, reality star Kim Kardashian, and the movie “Twilight” actress who replaced four years ago occupied the top position.
Until June, when Jackson died of a drug overdose, the inauguration of Obama collecting most of the surfers network, said Vera Chan, reviewers tendency in Yahoo Inc. networks.
“When the news of the death of Michael Jackson appeared, traffic extraordinary, and beyond that,” he said.
Death has all the elements of intrigue, tragedy, and it suddenly, surprising and extraordinary friendly, Chan said. “Then the case was decided as a murder. So it is a criminal investigation is ongoing. His death was not resolved,” he added.
Attract more hot news searches this year. Although Obama slipped from third position in 2008 was the 44th in 2009, the center of political attention shifted from the election campaign to a specific policy.
Providing economic stimulus plan is in fourth position and the health care reform in the sixth position among the search related to Obama.
Among the results related to finance, the words coupons and unemployment occupy the top positions, including Car Allowance System of organized government, student allowances, foreclosures, and jobs in government.
“Economics of course is different from previous years, how many people are monitoring the economic situation”, said Chan.
“Overall the top 10 list is often describe briefly our attention, our joy and what’s hot”, he said. Britney, her image down to make headlines for several years, dropped to fifth position in the list, just one level after Megan Fox, a sex symbol in the movie “Jennifer` s Body “, and on the Japanese cartoon, Naruto .
“Britney No.1 position for four years, and every year it unpleasant for him. Make welfare, and for our welfare, I think we are happy that we did not need to check him,” said Chan.
“Twilight” in second place in the list, followed by the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), Fox and Britney, while Naruto sixth position.
Yahoo reached 18 percent of Internet searches in the U.S. in October, while Google Inc. pocketed 65.4 percent, according to the company comScore. Yahoo search data only from the page the dot-com company. (*)
