Yahoo! Top Searches in 2009

How was 2009 for you? I guess we can say that it was a good year for the Philippines as Manny Pacquiao made us all proud! Cheers to Manny! Am sure that if Manny wins his fight in March and even snatches the congressional post in May, he will again be the top Yahoo! search in 2010.

Manny Pacquiao didn’t only make us proud but her also topped Yahoo! Philippines Search Terms for 2009! This annual review highlights the top Searches and trends on Yahoo!. It also presents ways how Filipinos use the Web to find information.


Note that the late President Cory Aquino and master rapper Francis Magalona were in second and third place. Their lives and their death definitely caused spikes for their names in Yahoo!


Top overall search terms for Philippines in 2009:
1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Cory Aquino
3. Francis Magalona
4. Ondoy
5. Dionisia Pacquiao
6. Shalani Soledad
7. Eraserheads
8. University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)
9. Mar and Korina
10.Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)

The top celebrity searches in The Philippines also included: Maricar Reyes, Angel Locsin, Sandara Park, Pamela Bianca Manalo, Kris Aquino, Marian Rivera, Michael Jackson, Coco Martin, Anne Curtis and Judy Ann Santos

The top mobile searches for Philippines included:
1. NBA
2. Katrina Halili
3. Manny Pacquiao
4. Marian Rivera
5. Hayden Kho
6. Francis Magalona
7. Citigroup
8. Michael Jackson
9. Cory Aquino
10. PBA

A global video on the Yahoo! Year in Review Rewind (global) can be seen at this link