Indy Racing League driver Danica Patrick topped golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Tom Brady and Super Bowl champion
Eli Manning and his brother Peyton as the most searched for athlete in 2008, according to America Online’s annual list of
top Web, mobile and video searches.
AOL annually ranks the top searches in 40 categories based on the people, places and topics that received the largest volume of Web and mobile search queries on AOL Search and on Truveo, the company’s video search engine.
Patrick, who raced into national prominence with a fourth-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 in 2005, increased her popularity with several milestones in 2008. Prior to the start of the IRL season, the 26-year-old graced the pages of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition, an issue that generates more than 69 million readers as well as more than 250 million online visitors.
On the track, Patrick made history in April when she earned her first career victory, the first victory by a woman in an Indy car event. She went on to finish a career-high sixth in the championship.
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The boys just need to take off some of their clothes and they can zoom to number 1.
BTW, Versus doesn't want you old mIndy guys hanging around; it messes up their drive for the younger audience that advertisers desire.
just sayin....:lol:
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New York, N.Y., Nov. 13, 2008 - Hitwise ®, an Experian company, announced today that Google accounted for 71.70 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Nov. 1, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com received 17.74 percent, 5.40 percent and 3.53 percent, respectively.
The remaining 43 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.62 percent of U.S. searches.
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So AOL is one of 43 that combined for 1.62% of the search market. So that gives AOL 0.037674418604651162790697674418605 percent (equally distributed) of the search market; which coincidentally is the Neilsen numbers TOney will get on reVersus .
The .0003Racing League. Great work Mr. George.
So I was actually right when I jokingly described the average AOL user as the Camp&Spew crowd
Hard to call a product boring when they have the closest finishes in motorsports. The action is so close, NASCAR tries its best to engineer similar racing.
Hard to call a product boring when they have the closest finishes in motorsports. The action is so close, NASCAR tries its best to engineer similar racing.
No, it's not hard to call the earl boring, since it sucks. It is, however, extremely difficult to classify it as 'racing' or 'motorsport', since it is neither. It is delusional rubbish from a lunatic inheritor.
If Nascar is trying so hard to be like the 'league', why aren't they 10,000 times less popular? :lol: Are they going to try to score a dollar-a-holler deal with ReVersus that only you know about?
Because we don't want your Mom and sister to lose their jobs in this economy.