The web portal released its Top 50 list of most-searched terms of the year this week, led off by Janet Jackson who set the tone for the list with her antics at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Jackson’s brief flash of skin and her star-shaped nipple shield generated a 5,200-percent increase in Jackson search activity over last year, Lycos said.
Spanish soap star Michelle Vieth, whose sex tapes wandered all over the Internet, and Ohio news anchor Catherine Bosley, who was found on the web after stripping in a Key West, Fla., nightclub, also reached lofty levels.
Here are the Top 20 of the list:
1. Janet Jackson
2. Paris Hilton
3. Britney Spears
4. Pamela Anderson
5. Michelle Vieth
6. Brooke Burke
7. Hilary Duff
8. Catherine Bosley
9. Jennifer Lopez
10. Anna Nicole Smith
11. Carmen Electra
12. Christina Aguilera
13. Tara Reid
14. Lindsay Lohan
15. Olsen Twins
16. Jessica Simpson
17. Anna Kournikova
18. Angelina Jolie
19. Beyonce
20. Torrie Wilson
Lycos, which publishes a Top 50 list on a weekly basis, predicts Maria Menounos, weekend host of "Entertainment Tonight"; Bam Margera, 23-year-old skateboarding pro and star of MTV's "Viva La Bam"; Joss Stone, a 17-year-old English soul crooner; Country music singer Gretchen Wilson; and U.K. soccer heartthrob Cristiano Ronaldo will be some of the ones to watch for in 2005.