Question: What do Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, and President-elect Barack Obama all have in common?

Answer: All three of them, along with the Japanese anime series Naruto and the pro wrestling company WWE, can be found on the Yahoo’s 2008 list of top  searches.

Unsurprisingly, in our celeb obsessed culture,  five of the top ten spots are occupied by Hollywood elite. (Six if you count Barack Obama!) The real question for the list is, what does this mean for the average person?

The answer is that, while Yahoo maintains a substantially lower percentage of the search market than Google (20.5% to the big G’s 63.1%), there are still millions of people who regularly use the site to retrieve information on the web. Because each search engine uses different algorithms to determine rankings, it is important to know where you stand on both sites.

So, while you may not have the same magnetic draw as Angelina Jolie or Runescape,  it is still possible people are punching in your name on Yahoo. This is why the experts at ReputationDefender are such valuable partners to have in helping keep your good name clean on the net.

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