News tops ‘sex’ in cybersearches

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Author: JT Smith

From MSNBC: “Osama bin Laden has displaced
Pamela Lee Anderson in cyberspace and people looking for
information about the American flag outnumbered those
curious about Britney Spears. For the first time in the short
history of the Internet, popular search engines report that ‘sex’
dropped off their lists of top 10 search terms in the days
following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.”