Football Scores Big Hits With Web Users; American Pie 2 and Actress Shannon Elizabeth Heat Up Online the Lycos 50 for Week Ending August 11, 2001.Internet/Entertainment Writers WALTHAM, Mass.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2001 Terra Lycos (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :TRLY), the largest global Internet network, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular user searches for the week ending August 11, 2001. For a complete list of The Lycos 50(TM) and for in-depth text of The Lycos 50 Daily Report, go to http://50.lycos.com. The Lycos 50(TM) Top 10 Search Terms for the Week Ending August 11, 2001: 1) Dragonball 6) WWF 2) Tattoos 7) Morpheus 3) Britney Spears 8) Final Fantasy 4) Pokemon 9) The IRS 5) Las Vegas 10) Pamela Anderson Notes of Interest: As football season fast approaches, the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga is up to number 21 on this week's list while fantasy football Fantasy football can refer to:
Drug Searches: Baycol (#43) the cholesterol-lowering drug cholesterol-lowering drug Therapeutics Any of a family of agents that ↓ serum cholesterol; the most cost-effective agents for lowering LDL-C are nicotinic acid and lovastatin; the most efficient for ↑ HDL-C are nicotinic acid and gemfibrozil taken by more than 700,000 Americans was taken off the market last week because the drug is being linked to at least 40 deaths thus far. Web users scrambled to the Internet to learn more, sending Baycol skyrocketing onto this week's list. Another drug continuing to make waves online is Viagra. Viagra is on the rise again, nearly making The Lycos 50, falling short at number 53. Few Web Searches for Chandra: After five weeks, the search for Chandra Levy Chandra Ann Levy (April 14 1977 – circa May 1 2001) was an intern who worked at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in the spring of 2001 and was subsequently found murdered in Rock Creek Park. goes on, but Web searches for the missing Washington intern have dropped drastically, resulting in Levy falling off The Lycos 50. About Terra Lycos Terra Lycos is a global Internet network operating in 43 countries in 20 languages, reaching 103 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. Created by the combination of Terra Networks Terra Networks, S. A., usually referred to as "Terra", is an Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain. Part of Telefónica Group (the former Spain's public telephone monopoly and now one of the most important telecommunications companies in the world), Terra , S.A. and Lycos, Inc., in October 2000, Terra Lycos is one of the most popular Internet networks in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and is the largest Internet access provider See ISP. (networking, company) Internet Access Provider - (IAP) A company or other origanisation which provides access to the Internet to businesses and/or consumers. in Spain and Latin America. The Terra Lycos network of sites includes Lycos.com, Terra.com, Angelfire.com, ATuHora.com, Gamesville.com, HotBot.com, Invertia.com, Lycos Zone, Matchmaker.com, Quote.com, Rumbo.com, Sonique, Tripod.com, RagingBull.com and Wired News (Wired.com). The company's headquarters are in Barcelona and it has major offices in Boston, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Miami, Monterrey and Sao Paulo among others. It is listed on the Madrid stock exchange Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Madrid) The largest of Spain's four stock exchanges. (TRR TRR Transportation Research Record (Journal) TRR Test Readiness Review TRR Target Ranging Radar TRR Total Rate of Return TRR Taiwan Research Reactor ) and on the Nasdaq electronic market (TRLY). For more information, please visit our corporate Web site at http://www.terralycos.com. (c) 2001 Lycos, Inc. Lycos(R)is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon. All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Terra Networks, S.A., Lycos, Inc. or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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