Yahoo! En Espanol Reveals the Most POPular Searches for May

Yahoo! En Espanol today announced its most popular Searches on Yahoo! Pop for the month ending May 31 (espanol.pop.yahoo.com/pop/05-2009/). An evolution of the company’s monthly Top Searches lists, Yahoo! Pop allows users to access the site and stay in touch with what’s hot and use it as a resource to search for and spot trends. Information on Yahoo! Pop is available and searchable by day, month and category.

The Most Popular Searches in Yahoo! Pop for May include:

Top 10 Overall Searches
1. Eva Mendes
2. Monica Bellucci
3. Brad Pitt
4. Adriana Lima
5. Carrie Prejean
6. Dorismar
7. Beyonce
8. Ivonne Montero
9. Adam Lambert
10. Jessica Biel

Beautiful women, a dashing Hollywood actor and the almost “American Idol” make up Yahoo!’s most popular searches list for the month of May. Cuban-American actress Eva Mendes topped the Pop list last month as she was crowned AskMen.com‘s “Most desirable woman of 2009.” Another beauty who had the world abuzz was Miss California Carrie Prejean whose photo scandal prompted a press conference in which Donald Trump announced that she would keep her title. Searches for Argentine model Dorismar also peaked last month after the announcement that she would once again grace the pages of men’s magazine H Extremo with a sexy pictorial. Yahoo! users also searched for info on Mexican model and actress Ivonne Montero who found herself in the middle of a scandal last month after rumors of a romantic relationship with a married Chilean TV presenter circled. Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, who promoted his upcoming film “Inglorious Basterds” during the Cannes Film Festival, obtained the number three spot on the list. After losing the competition and prompting the biggest upset on the popular American Idol show, searches for Adam Lambert peaked as fans wanted to learn more about this beloved contestant. Other Pop favorites last month included Italian actress Monica Bellucci, Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima, singer Beyonce and actress Jessica Biel.

In addition to the most popular overall topics, Yahoo! Pop also reveals the Top Ten Searches in six other categories: entertainment, music, technology, celebrities, news and sports. During the month of May, actresses Eva Mendes and Salma Hayek were the most searched for in the celebrity category. Searches for Cristiano Ronaldo, the popular Manchester United soccer player, and FC Barcelona, the Spanish soccer club that defeated the Manchester United in the European Tournament last month, dominated the sports category. Among the most searched in the news category was Alberto Cutie, after a magazine published photos of the popular priest caressing a woman at the beach, prompting a scandal and his subsequent decision to leave the Catholic Church. Yahoo! users also searched for news on Beyonce and Mariah Carey, who were among the most searched in the music category.

Updated daily, Yahoo! Pop search results showcase the diverse interests and concerns of U.S. Hispanics around the net, from gorgeous celebrity sightings and salacious political news to funny jokes and the latest consumer obsessions. To come up with the Yahoo! Pop Top 10 list, Yahoo! created a unique algorithm which scans anonymous query logs from Yahoo! Search across a variety of categories to see what themes and trends bubble up to the surface. Individual searches are never used to develop these lists.

Every day millions of people visit Yahoo! to search for news, hobbies, curiosities, and all types of information. By putting all of the searches together, the site displays the topics that are of most interest to people. To view the most popular searches of the day, click on ‘Pop’ on the Yahoo! En Espanol front page or visit: espanol.pop.yahoo.com/.“

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