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From Collegiate Presswire's RadioWire (https://www.cpwire.com/radio): Radio When it comes to popular culture, analysis of what people are searching for online offers an up-to-the-minute look at the latest trends and news headlines. According to Yahoo! Search Harry Potter whizzes past heavy hitters, Britney Spears and PlayStation 2 on the list of top searches overall for 2003. The war in Iraq and rumors of cloned babies top news searches and American Idol and Survivor continue to dominate top reality TV shows. The net also drove searches on scandalous stories about Rush Limbaugh, Kobe Bryant and Paris Hilton. Eric Gunther from Yahoo! Search: "Well, I like top searches overall -- topics that see the greatest spike in searches often give insight into a particular moment in time. For example this year, we saw the greatest spikes in searches for topics such as Siegfried and Roy, space shuttle Columbia and Al Jazeera." People can find the full list of top searches in 2003 such as top technologies, diets and Arnold Schwarzenegger misspellings by visiting search-dot-yahoo-dot-com-slash-top 2003. CLICK HERE to download a transcript of this story: CLICK HERE to download a multimedia (MP3) file of this story: © Copyright 2003 Collegiate Presswire, Inc. and NBN / CP RadioWire |