iPhone beats celebs as top web search term
The company said the smartphone proved more popular than reality television celebrity Kim Kardashian, pop star Katy Perry and singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, who all made the top five.
American Casey Anthony, the woman acquitted of the murder of her daughter after a highly-publicised trial, came second.
“This is the first time since 2002 that we have had a gadget at number one, which is an iPhone.” Vera Chan, a Web trend analyst at Yahoo!, said while announcing the results of the review’s 10th year.
“Even though the product has been around for four years, it just became such a major news story,” she added.
PlayStation 2 topped the list in 2002.
Chan credited the iPhone with helping to facilitate political movements around the world and said the device embodied the vision of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in October.
Women dominated the list, capturing six out of the top 10 spots. Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan, who made headlines for a brief stay in jail and court appearances for violating probation on drunk driving and theft charges, took the number six spot.
Actress Jennifer Aniston, a first timer on the top 10 list along with Lopez, came in eighth.
In addition to the Casey Anthony trial, the Japan earthquake and Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a US assault in Pakistan earlier this year, were the only news stories to make the top 10.
“People don’t have to search for details they get in the news, and it is rare that a news story ends up on the overall list,” said Chan.
Pop princess Britney Spears, who dominated the list in the top spot for four consecutive years, failed to make the list this year, while popular TV show American Idol, which was the most search item in 2004, came seventh.
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