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The top search term for all of 2006 was MySpace according to online research and measurement firm Hitwise. MySpace related search terms had five spots in the top 10 across all categories. EBay and Yahoo held the number 3 and 4 spots respectively.

The end of every year brings us all things "most" and "best" as list-crazy statisticians scramble to compile the subjects, people, companies, and fads are omnipresent in the popular mind. And the popular mind is, well, clueless.

There are two types of popular search reports. The first kind gives users a cleaned-up version so they won't offend their visitors and users.

Hitwise reports that while eBay is the most visited online shopping and auction destination, it also is the most searched-for brand in the entire Shopping category.

Weekly, WordTracker releases the top searched words taken from various metacrawlers. These words are stored in a database that features over 300 million searched terms.