Yahoo has again published its annual list of the most searched.  And in 2007, “Britney Spears” is still the nation’s most frequently searched phrase. 

Glad to see we’ve grown so much.  Oh wait…we haven’t.  Hey–how can the most-searched person on the web have trouble selling her new album? 

Rounding out the top ten are some sports-related queries (”WWE” is #2, and “Fantasy football” is #8) and more female celebrities (”Fergie,” “Jessica Alba,” “Paris Hilton,” “Beyonce,” and “Lindsay Lohan” all make an appearance).  So yeah…we’re a nation with a one-track mind, and a seeminlgy insatiable appetite for tabloid starlets. 

It’s enough to make me want to move to Canada, where their YahooCanada top-ten list at least has the NHL at #1.  Unfortunately, “Britney Spears” is on the minds of our northern neighbors as well, coming in at #2.  Canadians are strange, too, because “American Idol” is their third-most-searched phrase. 

I’m convinced that Yahoo only releases this information to make me depressed.  I know that the lion’s share of internet users in this country are teenagers, but let’s give the Britney thing a rest, folks–she’s been at # 1 for six of the past seven years!!  That’s ridiculous.  Sooner or later we’ve got to reach the Britney Tipping Point, and I for one am hoping it’s soon.