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The Lycos 50 report is a weekly report from Lycos which shows trends in popular search terms. Who is the most searched for celebrity? Popular TV shows or especially interesting news events and scandals can all make the search engine's top 50.
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Dean over at the Lycos 50 says that a word to watch is Sudoku - Sudoku is a puzzle type game that is quite popular in the UK. It appears in many newspapers. Essentially the game is to fill in numbers so that squares add up to 9. See some Sodoku examples here.
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The following terms had strong showings in 2007, and based on growing search queries, The Lycos 50 predicts these are the ones to watch in 2008. From the political stage, the terms 2008 Presidential Election, along with presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Ron Paul, and the environmentally conscious term, Going Green are expected to rise significantly in the coming months. The 2008 movies already generating buzz online are highly-anticipated films based on popular TV series and sequels including Batman: the Dark Knight, Sex and the City movie, X-Files movie, Cloverfield, Indiana Jones 4, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Also look for TV and film actors Seth Rogan, Michael Cera, Jenna Fischer, Miley Cyrus, and Christian Bale to put up big search numbers in the coming year. Television shows predicted to score hits online in 2008 include "LOST," "American Idol," "Survivor" and "30 Rock," while from the music scene, OneRepublic will rock web users. In the video game space, expect to see titles like Guitar Hero 3, Grand Theft Auto IV, Spore, Mario Kart, Halo Wars, and Super Smash Bros.
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Dean Tsouvalas, The Lycos 50's author, notes, "As we looked back at the most-searched terms over the past 10 years, two stand-out news events, beyond the Sept. 11 Attacks on America, include the O.J. Simpson Trial and the death of Princess Diana. Other news events making the top 50 list from 1995 through 2005 include searches for Jon Benet Ramsey and John Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, as people continue to search for information today based on their enormous global news appeal and conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths."
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As noted in the Lycos 50 FAQ, "these terms are often obscure to the general public, but known by enough Lycos searchers to get picked up by our keen radar. In short they are trends, or future trends, and they often contain the seeds of the 'next big thing.'"
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