Singer Natasha Bedingfield, One to Watch

WALTHAM, Mass. (Lycos, Inc.) - Lycos, Inc. (https://www.lycos.com), a media content destination for creators and consumers of quality content, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50, the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending Oct. 15, 2005. For a complete list of The Lycos 50 and for in-depth text of The Lycos 50 Daily Report, go to https://50.lycos.com. Readers of The Lycos 50 can also share their thoughts on Internet trends and pop culture on The Lycos 50 Blog located at https://lycos50.tripod.com/blog/.

The Lycos 50 Top 10 Search Terms for the Week Ending Oct. 15, 2005:
1) Halloween 6) Christmas
2) Poker 7) Dragonball
3) Paris Hilton 8) KaZaA
4) Pamela Anderson 9) Neopets
5) Britney Spears 10) Halloween Costumes

Notes of Interest:

Although she has not cracked The Lycos 50, search activity for the latest UK music phenomenon, singer Natasha Bedingfield, has increased 361 percent. Searches for Bedingfield have quintupled over the past four weeks. And like Madonna and Tina Turner before her, Bedingfield recently signed to be the next Bond girl featured in an upcoming 007 video game. Meanwhile, the other woman on the rise with web users, although shy of making The Lycos 50, is Supreme Court Justice nominee Harriet Miers. Searches for Miers are up 145 percent over the past week.

Other Notes of Interest:

Halloween (No 1) continues to dominate search activity this week, as Halloween Costumes (No 10) and Pumpkin Carving (No 12) take a bite out of searches. Pumpkin carving experiences the biggest rise in searches this week, up from number 24, with the popularity of sites like pumpkingutters.com, which have turned pumpkin carving into an art form. Searches for the term pumpkin carving have jumped 149 percent over the past week.