Britney Spears still retained the top spot in the 2007 Top 10 searches, but by now the girl next door had become a mother gone wild — and represented slew of troubled celebrities.

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Paris Hilton
4. Naruto
5. Beyoncé Knowles
6. Lindsay Lohan
7. RuneScape
8. Fantasy Football
9. Fergie
10. Jessica Alba

Yahoo! took a deeper dive into News trends. Melamine-tainted pet food, salmonella-harboring peanut butter, and ... more 

Britney Spears still retained the top spot in the 2007 Top 10 searches, but by now the girl next door had become a mother gone wild — and represented slew of troubled celebrities.

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Paris Hilton
4. Naruto
5. Beyoncé Knowles
6. Lindsay Lohan
7. RuneScape
8. Fantasy Football
9. Fergie
10. Jessica Alba

Yahoo! took a deeper dive into News trends. Melamine-tainted pet food, salmonella-harboring peanut butter, and lead-painted toys were among many products recalled in 2007. Former Vice President Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and the Kyoto Protocol's 10th anniversary helped fuel environmental queries, which also included the term "global warming." The execution of Saddam Hussein had happened in the last days of 2006, but cell-phone footage of the Iraqi dictator's hanging dwarfed all other News searches that year, including those for America's other conflicts, Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and the horrific massacre at Virginia Tech. (2008: Politics of hope, market meltdowns, Olympic spirits) The 2008 presidential elections registered a first on Yahoo's Top 10 list: a politician. The appearance of Barack Obama at No. 3 (taking up a slot once occupied by Paris Hilton, no less) wasn't just a message of hope: The searches also signaled how far the Web had come in people's lives, from shopping to political fundraising, from information gathering to news dissemination. (Carlos Osorio/AP Photo) less