The year’s buzziest discoveries and hoaxes With the world’s knowledge at people’s beck and call, you’d think monsters and mermaids wouldn’t have much sway in the public imagination. Time and again, though, searches reveal people...
How do you measure obsession? At Yahoo, we look at concepts that not only had big search averages, but accelerated fast up the search charts. In years past, we’ve had contentious figures (Tiger Mom), dance crazes (Gangnam Style) and the...
In today’s tech-drenched world of tweets, likes, upvotes and shares, a funny picture, meme or photobomb can go viral faster and further than ever before. Even so, it still takes a certain ‘it’ factor to make an impression and pique...
Courtroom junkies, 2013 was your year. High-profile cases stuffed dockets across the country and around the world. There were trials that tested Americans’ morals and values, judgments that ended political careers and celebrity cases that...
How do you measure obsession? At Yahoo, we look at concepts that not only had big search averages, but accelerated fast up the search charts. In lists pasts, obsessions have revolved around contentious figures (Tiger Mom), infectious dances (Gangnam...
We here at Yahoo like making lists out of chaos. As 2013 closes out, we’re back with Top 10 rankings ofsearches, news, obsessions and more. But sometimes, what doesn’t make a Top 10 list can be as intriguing as the frontrunners. Part of...
Mr. Classy himself, anchorman Ron Burgundy joins Yahoo’s legion of on-air talent with a special assignment — Yahoo’s 2013 Year in Review Top 10 Lists. Each year after combing through 52 weeks’ worth of data from Internet...