It’s that time of year again when we see each search engine roll out their top search queries for the year. Scrubbed for pornography and other NSFW stuff, of course. And also manipulated in other ways, like taking out old popular terms, to make sure the list is interesting, if not actually representative of anything, statistically speaking. Here are Bing’s top searches for 2009 . I hope nothing important happens in December that will force a revision. Michael Jackson took the top spot, edging out Twitter: Top 2009 Bing Trending Topics:
Michael Jackson
Twitter
Swine Flu
Stock Market
Farrah Fawcett
Patrick Swayze
Cash for Clunkers
Jon and Kate Gosselin
Billy Mays
Jaycee Dugard
Here are Yahoo and Google’s top search terms for 2008.
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