Reuters/REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz – The Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, is pictured though a flag depicting fugitive former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, during a...
Getty Images – Boston marathoners finish their race After a bruising election campaign that took a good part of two years, America deserved a rest. The country didn’t get one, unless you count the government shutdown – which almost...
After a bruising election campaign that took a good part of two years, America deserved a rest. The country didn’t get one, unless you count the government shutdown — which almost made the year’s ranking of the most-searched news...
Video “omg! Insider” is counting down the top-searched obsessions of 2013 according to Yahoo!’s Year-In-Review Report. Number 4 on the list is “Fifty Shades of Grey,” followed by “The Walking Dead at number 3 and “Breaking Bad” at...
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...