Yahoo Search 2010 Year in Review: BP, World Cup, Miley Cyrus
Though the majority of Yahoo’s top searches were for entertainment and celebrities, the BP oil spill was the top search for 2010. Just as it topped AOL’s news search category, the Gulf disaster dominated online searches on Yahoo.
Top Searches on Yahoo in 2010
Top Mobile Searches
While the top 10 lists for PC and mobile shared five of the same searches (though in different order), Yahoo noted that consumers wanted “quick, bite-size information on the most popular news of the day” from their mobile searches (e.g., NFL scores, latest celebrity news, lyrics).
10 Obsessions
Yahoo added a new list of things people couldn’t get enough of this year, from the iPhone and iPad to Facebook:
Top Searched Questions
Much like Ask.com, Yahoo tries to provide answers to users’ biggest questions, from the art of how to tie a tie to oddball questions about immortal animals, here’s what Yahoo users want to know:
Around the Globe
What are people in other countries searching for? Wonder no more, as Yahoo put together a year in review for the U.K., Brazil, Taiwan, and Germany.
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