The Lycos 50 for Week Ending February 24, 2001 Dale Earnhardt and NASCAR Dominate This Week's List.Entertainment Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2001 Online Fad "All Your Base Are Belong to Us "All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base," AYBABTU or simply AYB) is a broken English phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of a flash animation that depicted the slogan. ," One to Watch; The Most-Searched Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. Swimsuit Covergirls 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 leading global Internet network, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular user searches for the week ending February 24, 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 February 24, 2001 1) Dale Earnhardt 6) Britney Spears 2) NASCAR 7) Grammy Awards 3) Dragonball 8) Taxes 4) Napster 9) Pokemon 5) IRS 10) Daytona 500 Notes of Interest: The death of NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. legend Dale Earnhardt This article is about the elder Dale Earnhardt. For his son, see Dale Earnhardt, Jr.. For the racing team he founded, see Dale Earnhardt, Inc.. Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. pushed the racing superstar to number one and NASCAR to number two, far ahead of Dragonball (#3), Napster (#4) and Britney Spears (#6) on this week's list. Earnhardt becomes only the second search term to make its Lycos 50 debut in the number one spot (the first was Hurricane Floyd This article is about the 1999 hurricane. For other storms of the same name, see Tropical Storm Floyd (disambiguation). Hurricane Floyd was the sixth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. on Sept. 21, 1999). The Daytona 500, which didn't even make the list last year, reached number 10, while Sterling Marlin, the driving who was challenging Earnhardt for position when Earnhardt crashed, made his debut at number 49. Earnhardt fan searches ranged from Dale Earnhardt memorial to Dale Earnhardt memorabilia to Dale Earnhardt crash video and Dale Earnhardt autopsy. Searches for Dale Earnhardt, Jr. were up 1,300 percent and searches for Michael Waltrip, winner of the Daytona 500, were up 3,400 percent, but neither made The Lycos 50. Other Notes of Interest: One of the strangest queries ever to appear on The Lycos 50 made its way onto the list this week. All Your Base Are Belong to Us (#46) comes from the opening on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. printed dialogue from a 10-year-old video game called Zero Wing for the Sega Megadrive. In the Japanese-to-English translation, the enemy uses the grammatically-challenged phrase "All Your Base Are Belong to Us." For some unknown reason, Web-savvy folks began producing pictures depicting the phrase, which have started to appear in the strangest locales: a McDonald's sign, an airplane, billboards and in the windows of the Terra Lycos office in Waltham, Mass. A music video has even surfaced, showing various photos set to a techno beat. Most-Searched Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Covergirls: In honor of the latest Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated magazine. It features top fashion models wearing designer swimwear in exotic locales. New issues come out around the middle of February or later. It was first published in 1964. (#30), the most-searched swimsuit issue models last week, according to Lycos users, were: 1) Elsa Benitez 2) Heidi Klum 3) Josie Moran 4) Molly Sims 5) Veronica Varekova About Terra Lycos Terra Lycos is the new global Internet network operating in 41 countries in 19 languages, reaching 94 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. Created by the combination of Terra Networks, 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 third 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 the world. 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, Madrid, Sao Paolo and Monterrey, among others. It is listed on the Madrid bourse bourse (b  rs), term applied to a European stock exchange. The first international bourse was established in Antwerp in the 16th cent. (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). (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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