iPhone, Casey Anthony, Kim Kardashian Lead Yahoo's Top 10 Searches Of 2011

Search engine Yahoo has released its results for the top 10 search terms of 2011.

This year, the most popular search were dominated by the usual news stories, celebrities and natural disasters, but there was also one big surprise. A gadget (see slideshow) topped Yahoo's list of the top ten most-searched terms, a rare occurrence, according to Yahoo.

"In the 11 years that Yahoo! has compiled its annual list of top searches, PlayStation 2 (2001 and 2002) is the only other device to have captured the top slot," Yahoo wrote in a post accompanying the list. "This year, [a gadget again] led the queries, bypassing a reality TV divorcee and America's most wanted terrorist."

Rival search engine Bing, which is owned by Microsoft, recently released its own year-end recap of the most-searched gadgets. Interestingly, the gadget that lords over Yahoo's list appears in fourth place on Bing's list.

As part of the company's 2011 year in review, Yahoo has also put together a compilation video of the year's most inspiring moments, a list of the 10 worst trends of the past 12 months, and much more. Visit Yahoo to see all these year-end goodies.

Take a look at the slideshow (below) to see Yahoo's complete list of the year's top 10 searches. Then, check out our slideshows of more year-end reviews, such as Facebook's 15 most-shared stories, Twitter's most memorable moments and, of course, Bing's most-searched gadgets of 2011.

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Comments

[writeon1]

07:26 PM on 12/30/2011

Geez, I was hoping and praying that a Kardashian wasn't going to be on this list. Here's to a Kardashian-free 2012! Please, give us a break.

[Socrates Key]

08:26 PM on 12/04/2011

Disgusting

[ECJIM 3ABTPA BONHA]

03:19 PM on 12/03/2011

It disturbs me that majority of these searches are nothing but famous stars....I always tend to think that maybe people are searching on more important things...things they can learn... Maybe like presidential campaigns...financial system...or maybe even jobs...
things that have a deeper meaning other then reality TV stars.
This is bad! A great example of where we are heading...

[Evan Joseph Ringle]

02:25 PM on 12/03/2011

Okay, we're ufcked. I'm not going to lie. We are. We're going to die.

[colin72]

10:54 AM on 12/03/2011

Next time someone starts talking about how we're such a great country I'm going to point out that Kim Kardashian was #3 on this list and tell them they should shut up.

[maigoro]

05:00 AM on 12/03/2011

Apart from the Japan Earthquake at #9 all the searches are USA related (even OBL). Are these results from all Yahoo sites worldwide or just the USA yahoo site?

[mxytsplyk]

11:51 PM on 12/02/2011

For this they invented the internet...

[Goliadkin]

08:27 PM on 12/02/2011

Occupy slideshows.

[Highball]

05:49 PM on 12/02/2011

None of this is too surprising. I guess I was sort of surprised by Jennifer Lopez, but not too surprised.

Otherwise, it's all fairly standard stuff, I guess.

[Sp8z]

05:45 PM on 12/02/2011

Sad comment on the values in our society.