According to Yahoo!, the Top News Stories in 2007 were about Saddam Hussein and his
final days, Iran and Iraq, President George W. Bush, world prices for oil and gas, senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, that kept their high ratings since 2006, San Diego fires, political situation in Afghanistan and the big
Virginia Tech tragedy.
Also, in 2007 (the year of the Kyoto Protocol anniversary) people became more and more interested in ecological and ecosystem problems. Al Gore’s film,
An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award and brought global warming to the fore-front. So, users searched the information on recycling problems, the global warming, the Earth, pollutions, hybrid cars and solar energy using.
Britney Spears achieved Celebrity Top, being followed by Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith. All of them were also marked in the Yahoo! Top 2006.
In the list of technological searches there are YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook and three Apple’s products - iTunes, iPod, iPhone; followed by Nintendo Wii, Xbox, Sony PlayStation 3 and Guitar Hero game.
Most often users added to del.icio.us such items as design, HDTV, games, music, Web 2.0, video, Ubuntu, travel, photography and Mac. The list of searches in sports news is achieved by NASCAR and Maria Sharapova.
As for kids, they were interested in topics about animals and (separately) dinosaurs, some Math, some Hannah Montana, George Washington and also, as adults, about global warming.
The detail data you can find
here .
1. Yahoo! announces Top Trends in search in 2007 
