Pam Anderson, Carmen Electra and Debbie Gibson, Biggest Gainers This Week
Oscar Searches Indicate Johnny Depp and Hilary Swank Will Take Home Gold
The Lycos 50 for Week Ending February 19, 2005
WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lycos, Inc.
(http://www.lycos.com), a leading provider of search, community and technology
lifestyle destinations and a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications,
Corp. (KOSDAQ: 035720), a premier Internet portal in Korea, today announced
the following information from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular Internet
search results for the week ending Feb. 19, 2005. For a complete list of The
Lycos 50(TM) and for in-depth text of The Lycos 50 Daily Report, go to
http://50.lycos.com. Readers of The Lycos 50 can also share their thoughts on
Internet trends and pop culture on The Lycos 50 Blog located at
http://lycos50.tripod.com/blog/.
The Lycos 50(TM) Top 10 Search Terms for the Week Ending Feb. 19, 2005:
1) Valentine's Day 6) Candice Michelle
2) Pamela Anderson 7) Jennifer Lopez
3) Paris Hilton 8) Carmen Electra
4) Britney Spears 9) Debbie Gibson
5) Clay Aiken 10) Poker
Notes of Interest:
PETA spokesperson and web favorite, Pamela Anderson (#2) rises a few
notches this week thanks to censors in China. Anderson is causing a search
ruckus due to her latest anti-fur campaign poster in which she appears nude,
covered only by her arms next to the tagline "Give Fur the Cold Shoulder."
But Shanghai authorities ruled citizens of China won't get to see the ad in
its entirety, and can only view Anderson from the hips up. And once something
is forbidden to view offline, it creates fervor online, with search activity
for Anderson up slightly ahead of Paris Hilton (#3) for the first time ever.
Meanwhile, Carmen Electra (#8) shows women how to "strip away the pounds" with
her new fitness DVD -- Fit to Strip Volume 2, the latest Hollywood fitness
craze of striptease aerobics. Electra is also heading up the Naked Women's
Wrestling League, promoting a search for lucky women to join the ranks of
other wrestling divas.
Other Notes of Interest:
Debbie Gibson (#9) sees the biggest jump in search activity, moving from
number 39 last week into the top 10 on this week's list. Searches for Gibson
are up following news of her recent pictorial in the current issue of Playboy,
and her appearance last week on The Howard Stern Radio Show. Searches for
Gibson are up 200 percent this week. Ironically, as she tries to shed her
youthful image, searches for Debbie Gibson are 5 times more popular than
searches for Deborah Gibson.
And the Online Winner is ...
Searches for the Academy Awards(TM) are up 560 percent this week, and if
web search activity is any indication, Natalie Portman will be taking home
Oscar gold for her best supporting actress performance in Closer. Portman
receives six times more searches than the closest best supporting actress
nominee, Virginia Madsen of Sideways. As for best supporting actor, Jamie
Foxx is a clear winner with web users, generating more search activity than
all the other best supporting actor nominees combined, for his role in
Collateral. Web darling Johnny Depp also receives more searches than all the
other best actor nominees combined for Finding Neverland, while Hilary Swank
knocks out her competition to score the most searches online as best actress
for her performance in Million Dollar Baby. Search activity for best picture
proves to be a much tighter race, with Ray generating slightly more than one
percent of searches than the next most popular movie, Million Dollar Baby.
About Lycos, Inc.
Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum
Communications Corp., a leading Internet portal and e-commerce destination in
Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. Lycos, Inc.
creates and operates search, community and technology lifestyle sites
including Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Wired.com, Tripod.com, Angelfire.com and
Quote.com. Other Lycos products and sites include Lycos Mail, Gamesville and
GetRelevant. Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October
2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum
Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720, http://www.daum.net.
Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University. All
other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Daum
Communications Corp., Lycos, Inc. or their respective owners. All rights
reserved.
SOURCE Lycos, Inc.
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