The Lycos 50 for Week Ending July 8, 2000; Oh Brother! New CBS Hit Series Big Brother is a Huge Hit Online.Entertainment Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 12, 2000 The following information is from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular user searches for the week ending July 8, 2000. 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 July 8, 2000 1) Pokemon 6) Darva Conger 2) Big Brother 7) Pamela Anderson 3) Britney Spears 8) WWF 4) Dragonball 9) Tattoos 5) Diablo 10) Harry Potter Notes of Interest: The new CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. series Big Brother, where 10 volunteers live in a custom-built house with 28 cameras, 60 microphones and 24-hour surveillance, unleashed such a huge flood of user queries that it nearly unseated Pokemon for the number one spot on the list. Many users are attracted by the 24-hour Webcams available at the official Web site, searching frantically for bigbrother.com. Other Notes of Interest: The online popularity of Big Brother bumped CBS' other "real-life" series Survivor from the top 10 down to number 13 on the list. Old favorite, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, is far out of the running, drawing less than 10 percent of the user searches of Survivor and less than five percent of Big Brother. New This Week: The Perfect Storm made its first appearance on the list at number 28, with nearly one-third of users searching for the doomed ship, the Andrea Gail The fishing vessel Andrea Gail was a commercial fishing vessel lost at sea during the "Perfect Storm" of 1991. Background The Andrea Gail was a 72 foot commercial fishing vessel That was constructed in Panama City, FL in 1978, originally named the "Miss . One to Watch: Tenchi Muyo made its debut on the list at number 37. Yet another animated television series “Animated series” redirects here. For full information about animated series, see Animated cartoon. Animated Series are a television series produced by means of animation. from Japan, this one has magic swords, galactic samurai, gems of incredible power and big-eyed princesses. About Lycos, Inc. Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. , clubs, chat, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or ; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into featuring more than 3,100 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of premium sites: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. , Webmonkey, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville and Lycos Zone. Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com), "Your Personal Internet Guide," is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston, in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. On May 16, Lycos, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement with Terra Networks, S.A. (MC: TRR TRR Transportation Research Record (Journal) TRR Test Readiness Review TRR Target Ranging Radar TRR Total Rate of Return TRR Taiwan Research Reactor ; 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 : TRRA TRRA Terminal Railroad Association (of St. Louis) TRRA Three Rivers Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) TRRA Three River Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) ), a global Internet company and the leading provider of Internet access and interactive content and services to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, under which Terra will acquire Lycos in a stock-for-stock transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, Lycos shareholders will own approximately 37% to 46% of the new company, Terra Lycos. 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