Palin Palooza Pushes GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin to Top of Lycos Search List, More Popular than Paris Hilton and YouTube

    WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Lycos, Inc.
 (http://www.lycos.com), a leading provider of social publishing, media and
 search services, today announced the following information from The Lycos
 50(TM), the most popular Internet search terms and trends for the week
 ending Aug. 30, 2008. For more information on this week's list and
 commentary, go to http://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 http://lycos50.tripod.com/blog/ and the Under the Red
 Carpet Blog at http://redcarpet.tripod.com/blog/.
 
 

 
     Biggest Movers and Shakers for Week Ending Sept. 6, 2008:
     1.   Sarah Palin Speech          500 %
     2.   Bristol Palin               465 %
     3.   Gossip Girl                 433 %
     4.   New 90210                   380 %
     5.   Levi Johnston               325 %
     6.   Pink                        300 %
     7.   RNC                         298 %
     8.   America's Got Talent        245 %
     9.   Cindy McCain                210 %
     10.  Ike Pappas                  170 %
 
     Search Gainers:
 
     Five of the top 10 biggest search topics on this week's Movers and
 Shakers list center around the GOP ticket, as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (#1)
 tops The Lycos 50, coming in at number one, generating more online interest
 than Paris Hilton (#2) and YouTube (#3). Palin continues to dominate news
 headlines, with searches spiking 500 percent over the past week for the
 Sarah Palin Speech. Search interest in Bristol Palin also increases
 four-fold as web users scour the internet in search of details on the
 pregnant daughter of the GOP vice presidential nominee, while online
 interest in the father of Bristol's child, Levi Johnston, triples. Search
 interest also triples for the RNC and searches double for Cindy McCain,
 wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. And from the
 non-political world, the television premieres of both Gossip Girl and the
 new 90210 score big hits with TV viewers and web users alike. Gossip Girl,
 which sees its best-ever TV ratings with 3.4 million viewers according to
 the CW, jumps 433 percent this week, while the highly-anticipated debut of
 the 90210 remake beat Gossip Girl's ratings by 34 percent according to
 Nielson, and sees a 380 percent bump in search activity on Lycos.
 
     About Lycos, Inc.
 
     Lycos, Inc. operates search and social media web sites that foster
 online communities, including the new Lycos Cinema community, bringing
 people together one flick at a time. Other Lycos products and sites include
 Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Tripod.com, Angelfire.com, Gamesville.com, Lycos
 Mail, Webon, WhoWhere.com and The Lycos 50(TM). Lycos, Inc. (www.lycos.com)
 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., a leading search
 and Internet portal in Korea. Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum
 Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in
 Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ:
 035720, www.daum.net.
 
     Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Lycos, Inc. All other product or
 service marks mentioned herein are those of Daum Communications Corp.,
 Lycos, Inc. or their respective owners. All rights reserved.
 
 
 

SOURCE Lycos, Inc.