December is just beginning and we're already starting to get flooded with round-ups, tops, and the likes, all trying to sum up 2009 in a nice orderly and succinct fashion. Bing came out with its top searches of 2009 yesterday, and now Yahoo is doing the same. Normally, you'd expect some differences but for the most part things should look pretty much the same, right? Wrong, as it turns out, apart from the top search topic which was Michael Jackson on both search engines, the top 10 is completely different with not one search term shared between the two.
The top, and the major differences between the Bing one, paints a very clear picture of the ones using Yahoo Search, currently the number two search engine in the world by market share. All searches are very much media-related and many are for celebrities. This can be easily explained by the audiences of the two search engines. Bing is more popular with the tech-savvy crowd while Yahoo is more appealing to the mainstream.
1. Michael Jackson 2. Twilight 3. WWE 4. Megan Fox 5. Britney Spears 6. Naruto 7. American Idol 8. Kim Kardashian 9. NASCAR 10. Runescape
1. Megan Fox 2. Mobile Games 3. Michael Jackson 4. Movies 5. Rihanna 6. Mail 7. Lady Gaga 8. NFL 9. Ringtones 10. iPhone