The results are in, ladies and gentlemen. These are 2008’s most popular searches on everyone’s second favourite search engines:

Ask.com

1. Dictionary
2. MySpace
3. Google
4. YouTube
5. Facebook
6. Coupons
7. Cars
8. Craigslist
9. Online degrees
10. Credit score

Yahoo!

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. American Idol

The good folk at Google have not been so forthcoming with their information, but there is plenty to mull over using Trends and Insights.

What do these results say about the users of Ask and Yahoo? Are Ask users more socially responsible types who care about credit ratings and accurate spellings? Or are Yahoo users just more interested in popular culture (and cleavage)?