It's not a great surprise, to be honest, that Britney Spears was the top search on Yahoo! this year, even if she wasn't promoting an album. She did, after all, have a second child about ten seconds after the first one, filed for divorce from her husband, hung out with Paris Hilton and then flashed her muff at the paparazzi. I expect that's what they'd call a recipe for search term success.
Yahoo! says Britney was well in the lead even before every gossip blog on the interweb had posted pictures of the popstrel sans-panties, however, with spokeswoman Cathi Early explaining that the reason for Britney's dominance of the world of online searches is down to the fact that men and women are both equally interested in her.
Pretty much all of the top ten has some kind of music relationship actually, apart from wrestling thingy WWE. Also in the list were: 'Shakira' 'Jessica Simpson', 'Paris Hilton' (she did release an album), 'American Idol', 'Beyonce Knowles', 'Chris Brown', 'Pamela Anderson' (divorcing Kid Rock, let's not forget), and Lindsay Lohan (she also released an album at some point).
Which just shows you... well, something. Well I do know that it shows you that people are mostly interested in celebrities and reality TV. Which is always worrying.