Poker, Golf Top Lycos Most Popular Search Keywords

Lycos Provides Information that Can Be like Gold for Web Marketers

People all over the world use the internet to search for information and products. Marketers around the world want to make sure they make their information easy to find. Lycos is providing them with some helpful information with the top keywords searched recently. In a press release Lycos, Inc., has announced what the most popular key words were for searches for the week ending August 11th. They also revealed trends with what search terms are seeing the biggest increases. This information can be very useful information both to companies marketing their products, and others marketing their information online.

Celebrities continue to be popular as far as searches go on Lycos with three of them in the top ten. None of them were in the top five though. Beyonce was the highest ranking at number six, followed by Britney Spears at number nine, and Paris Hilton rounding out the top ten at number ten.

Animation and cartoons were also very popular as far as search terms go last week. The highest ranked was Naruto cracking the top five at number five. Disney and Pokemon were ranked back to back on the list. Disney ranked at number seven on the list with Pokemon ranking at number seven.

The top five featured two entries both from the categories of sports/gambling and websites. Websites were popular with both Myspace and YouTube ranking in the top five. Myspace ranked in at number three, followed directly by YouTube at number four.

The top spots were held by the sports/gambling category though. Golf claimed the second most popular search total as a keyword last week. This is most likely due to the season being in full swing as it heads towards the stretch run of it's season. Meanwhile, number one was the card game of poker. With the World Series of Poker adding to the popularity of the hobby, many card fans were seeking information on the game. It is also a popular search with the number of home poker games that have been popping up around the country over the past several years.