The late King of Pop Michael Jackson ruled the Internet this year

Seems that the most popular term searched on Google, Yahoo! and Bing this year was Michael Jackson, so the king of pop ruled the internet.

Michael Jackson

Britney Spears was the music star that had reigned supreme in annual Top 10 search results at Yahoo! for the previous four years. She was the fifth most popular search topic at Yahoo! in 2009 after Michael Jackson, teenage vampire book and film series “Twilight,” World Wrestling Entertainment, and rising star Megan Fox.

Vera Chan, a Yahoo! trend analyst said: “We saw consumers escape to the Web hoping to pursue news and their guilty pleasures: vampires, political implosions, how to moonwalk — you name it, people went online to find it and with economic uncertainty looming, people looked for ways to find stability by searching the Web for new jobs, unemployment benefits, and ways to save through old-fashioned coupon hunting”.

In Google’s list of fastest-rising searches this year was also present Michael Jackson, “Twilight” and US singer Lady Gaga.

Michael Jackson died on June 25 in Los Angeles and his death became a topic for everyone so that is why he resulted to be the most popular term searched on internet.

Global Language Monitor (GLM) is a Texas-based company which analyzes and tracks language trends, who said that “Twitter” was the “Top Word of 2009.”

GLM president Paul Payack said: “In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the after effects of a financial tsunami and the death of a revered pop icon, the word Twitter stands above all the other words”.

GLM uses a “proprietary algorithm that tracks words and phrases in the media and on the Internet” to compile its rankings.