Google and Yahoo released their top search results for 2009, with King of Pop Michael Jackson leading the way. The top two search engine rivals released their results one day after Microsoft’s Bing upstart issued its top 10 trending queries, which were also led by Jackson. Social network Facebook, pop star Lady Gaga, vampire movie New Moon and other popular subjects captured the U.S. and world’s attention. Yahoo users can tweet their own top moments of 2009 and have an opportunity to win an iPod touch.
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Michael Jackson, who passed away from a drug overdose this
year on June 25, was the top search term on Google and Yahoo in 2009, perhaps
fitting for the king of pop music. Query volume about Jackson even crashed Google.

Google’s Zeitgeist report, which aims to capture what user…