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Below is the list of Top 10 Yahoo! searches for 2011 that captivated the thoughts and enthusiasm of the internet community:

TOP 10 SEARCHES
1. iPhone
2. Casey Anthony
3. Kim Kardashian
4. Katy Perry
5. Jennifer Lopez
6. Lindsay Lohan
7. “American Idol”
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Japan Earthquake
10. Osama bin Laden

TOP NEWS STORIES
1. Casey Anthony Trial
2. Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
3. Royal Wedding
4. Death of Osama bin Laden
5. Unemployment
6. Arizona Shooting
7. Death of Amy Winehouse
8. Arab Spring
9. Libya/Death of Moammar Gadhafi
10. Occupy Wall Street

HEROIC ACTS
1. Gabrielle Giffords
2. Navy SEAL Team Six
3. U.S. and Japan’s Women’s Soccer
4. Red Cross Volunteers
5. Lara Logan
6. Dakota Meyer
7. Fukushima 50
8. Mohamed Bouazizi
9. Texas Volunteer Firefighters
10. John Feal (9/11)

EXTREME WEATHER
1. New Year Blizzards
2. Drought and Wildfires in Oklahoma
3. Spring Tornado Outbreak
4. Joplin Tornado Disaster
5. Missouri and Mississippi River Floods
6. Summer Heat Wave
7. Hurricane Irene
8. Wallow and Bastrop Fires
9. October Nor’easter
10. Late Fall Storms

END OF AN ERA
1. Space Shuttle Program
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Borders
4. Harry Potter
5. Friendster
6. Steve Jobs
7. News of the World
8. “Kate Plus 8?
9. Elizabeth Warren
10. Iraq Withdrawal

CAUGHT?
1. Anthony Weiner
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. John Edwards
4. Herman Cain
5. Silvio Berlusconi
6. Kwame Kilpatrick
7. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
8. David Wu
9. John Ensign
10. Chris Lee

OBSESSIONS
1. Charlie Sheen
2. The Rapture
3. “Friday” (Rebecca Black)
4. Mortgage Rates
5. Extreme Couponing
6. Angry Birds
7. Planking
8. “Game of Thrones”
9. Government Shutdown
10. Tiger Mom

Visit Yahoo! for the comprehensive details of the review and other top searches. You can also go to Yahoo! 2011 Year in Review.

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Yahoo! Philippines announced today its Year in Review which shows a complete report of the top 10 searches for 2011. Listed below is the complete list of what mattered most to the Filipino netizens in 2011.

Overall Top Searches for 2011 on Yahoo! Philippines

1. Shamcey Supsup
2. PAGASA
3. NBA
4. Sam Pinto
5. Azkals
6. Shalani Soledad
7. Andi Eigenmann
8. AJ Perez
9. Marian Rivera
10. Earthquakes

2011 YEAR IN REVIEW (CATEGORIES)

LAKAS-PALAKASAN
1. PBA
2. Manny Pacquiao
3. Simon Atkins
4. Lakas-Palakasan
5. James Yap
6. Phil Younghusband
7. Kiefer Ravena
8. Smart Gilas
9. Neil Etheridge
10. UAAP

BAGONG MUKHA
1. Jasmine Curtis
2. Renz Fernandez
3. Diego Loyzaga
4. Daniel Padilla
5. Ritz Azul
6. Mikael Daez
7. Coleen Garcia
8. Solenn Heussaff
9. Alden Richards
10. Angeline Quinto

KONTROBERSYAL
1. Willing Willie
2. Binibining Pilipinas
3. Albie Casiño
4. Piolo Pascual & KC Concepcion
5. Vice Ganda
6. Heart Evangelista
7. Coco Martin and Matteo Guidicelli
8. Rhian Ramos and Mo Twister
9. Amanda Coling
10. Mikael Daez

PELIKULA’T TELEBISYON
1. Pilipinas Got Talent
2. American Idol
3. Temptation Island
4. Mara Clara
5. Talentadong Pinoy
6. Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin
7. Amaya
8. Indie scene
9. Showtime
10. GMA News TV

PINOY PRIDE
1. Philippine Azkals
2. Shamcey Supsup
3. Manny Pacquiao
4. Philippine Dragon Boat Team
5. Philippine Volcanoes
6. Pitong Pinoy
7. Wesley So
8. Samantha Sotto
9. Danica Magpantay
10. Dennis Orcullo

NEGOSYO
1. Cebu Pacific soars
2. Banco Filipino closed
3. PAL union strike
4. Filipino tycoons
5. Jollibee gets busy
6. PLDT-Digitel merger
7. Price hikes
8. Meralco
9. PSE’s longer hours
10. Real estate boom

PINOY AT PINAY
1. Angel Locsin
2. Piolo Pascual
3. Marian Rivera
4. Andi Eigenmann
5. Anne Curtis
6. Shalani Soledad
7. Derek Ramsay
8. Claudine Barretto
9. John Lloyd Cruz, Shaina Magdayao, and Ruffa Gutierrez
10. Coco Martin, Maja Salvador, and Matteo Guidicelli

ISYU’T BALITA
1. Typhoons batter PH
2. GMA’s legal and health woes
3. Miguel’s out, Koko’s in
4. Peace talks
5. West Philippine Sea row
6. Instant notoriety
7. Heidi Mendoza’s cause
8. The RH Bill debacle
9. Bishops and SUVs
10. Shocking crimes

PAGBABAGO
1. Image change
2. Network transfers
3. Break-ups
4. New couples
5. Memorable engagements
6. Low-key weddings
7. First-time parents
8. Farewells
9. Left behind
10. Comebacks

KAKAIBA
1. Nostradamus predictions
2. 13th Zodiac sign
3. Lolong
4. Falling satellite
5. Planking
6. Anti-Angry Birds Bill
7. Smallest man
8. 2012
9. Pinoy Superman
10. Batangas sign in Taal Volcano

TECHIE
1. iPhone 4S
2. iPad 2
3. PlayStation Vita
4. Nintendo 3DS
5. Amazon Kindle Fire
6. HP TouchPad
7. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
8. Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 smartphones
9. Asus Eee Pad Transformer
10. Apple MacBook Air

MUNDO
1. Japan earthquake and tsunami
2. Royal weddings
3. Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi
4. Egypt, Libya and other revolutions
5. Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy
6. U.S. economic meltdown
7. North Korea vs. South Korea
8. Pope John Paul II Beatification
9. World Youth Day
10. Occupy Wall Street

Visit Yahoo! Philippines for the comprehensive details of the 2011 Year in Review and other top searches. You can also go to Yahoo! Philippines 2011 Year in Review.

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Listed below are the man-made New7Wonders of Nature in alphabetical order:

• Amazon Rainforest (located in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, France (French Guiana), Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela)
• Halong Bay (located in Vietnam)
• Iguazu/Iguaçu Falls (National Park) (located in Argentina and Brazil)
• Jeju Island (located in South Korea)
• Komodo Island (National Park) (located in Indonesia)
• Puerto Princesa Underground River (located in the Philippines)
• Table Mountain (National Park) (located in South Africa)

The New7Wonders of Nature was an initiative started in 2007 to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll. It was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber and organized by the New7Wonders Foundation, a Swiss-based, government-controlled foundation. The initiative followed the New7Wonders of the World, which attracted 100 million votes from around the world. Voting continued until Nov. 11, 2011, when the list was announced.

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Another doomsday prophecy has failed. Harold Camping’s prediction that the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011 did not happen.

Here are the other 10 failed predictions about the end of the world that fail:

The Prophet Hen of Leeds, 1806
History has countless examples of people who have proclaimed that the return of Jesus Christ is imminent, but perhaps there has never been a stranger messenger than a hen in the English town of Leeds in 1806. It seems that a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase “Christ is coming” was written. As news of this miracle spread, many people became convinced that doomsday was at hand — until a curious local actually watched the hen laying one of the prophetic eggs and discovered someone had hatched a hoax.

The Millerites, April 23, 1843
A New England farmer named William Miller, after several years of very careful study of his Bible, concluded that God’s chosen time to destroy the world could be divined from a strict literal interpretation of scripture. As he explained to anyone who would listen, the world would end some time between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. He preached and published enough to eventually lead thousands of followers (known as Millerites) who decided that the actual date was April 23, 1843. Many sold or gave away their possessions, assuming they would not be needed; though when April 23 arrived (but Jesus didn’t) the group eventually disbanded—some of them forming what is now the Seventh Day Adventists.

Mormon Armageddon, 1891 or earlier
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, called a meeting of his church leaders in February 1835 to tell them that he had spoken to God recently, and during their conversation he learned that Jesus would return within the next 56 years, after which the End Times would begin promptly.

Halley’s Comet, 1910
In 1881, an astronomer discovered through spectral analysis that comet tails include a deadly gas called cyanogen (related, as the name imples, to cyanide). This was of only passing interest until someone realized that Earth would pass through the tail of Halley’s comet in 1910. Would everyone on the planet be bathed in deadly toxic gas? That was the speculation reprinted on the front pages of “The New York Times” and other newspapers, resulting in a widespread panic across the United States and abroad. Finally even-headed scientists explained that there was nothing to fear.

Pat Robertson, 1982
In May 1980, televangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson startled and alarmed many when — contrary to Matthew 24:36 (“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven…”) he informed his “700 Club” TV show audience around the world that he knew when the world would end. “I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world,” Robertson said.

Heaven’s Gate, 1997
When comet Hale-Bopp appeared in 1997, rumors surfaced that an alien spacecraft was following the comet — covered up, of course, by NASA and the astronomical community. Though the claim was refuted by astronomers (and could be refuted by anyone with a good telescope), the rumors were publicized on Art Bell’s paranormal radio talk show “Coast to Coast AM.” These claims inspired a San Diego UFO cult named Heaven’s Gate to conclude that the world would end soon. The world did indeed end for 39 of the cult members, who committed suicide on March 26, 1997.

Nostradamus, August 1999
The heavily obfuscated and metaphorical writings of Michel de Nostrdame have intrigued people for over 400 years. His writings, the accuracy of which relies heavily upon very flexible interpretations, have been translated and re-translated in dozens of different versions. One of the most famous quatrains read, “The year 1999, seventh month / From the sky will come great king of terror.” Many Nostradamus devotees grew concerned that this was the famed prognosticator’s vision of Armageddon.

Y2K, Jan. 1, 2000
As the last century drew to a close, many people grew concerned that computers might bring about doomsday. The problem, first noted in the early 1970s, was that many computers would not be able to tell the difference between 2000 and 1900 dates. No one was really sure what that would do, but many suggested catastrophic problems ranging from vast blackouts to nuclear holocaust. Gun sales jumped and survivalists prepared to live in bunkers, but the new millennium began with only a few glitches.

May 5, 2000
In case the Y2K bug didn’t do us in, global catastrophe was assured by Richard Noone, author of the 1997 book “5/5/2000 Ice: the Ultimate Disaster.” According to Noone, the Antarctic ice mass would be three miles thick by May 5, 2000 — a date in which the planets would be aligned in the heavens, somehow resulting in a global icy death (or at least a lot of book sales). Perhaps global warming kept the ice age at bay.

God’s Church Ministry, Fall 2008
According to God’s Church minister Ronald Weinland, the end times are upon us– again. His 2006 book “2008: God’s Final Witness” states that hundreds of millions of people will die, and by the end of 2006, “there will be a maximum time of two years remaining before the world will be plunged into the worst time of all human history. By the fall of 2008, the United States will have collapsed as a world power, and no longer exist as an independent nation.” As the book notes, “Ronald Weinland places his reputation on the line as the end-time prophet of God.”

Cheers,

Happy Earth Day 2011 everyone!

Let’s reuse.

Let’s recycle.

Let’s restore.

Let’s replenish.

Let us all do it one step at a time to save our only planet.

Cheers,

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79.

The cause of her death is still not yet released but reports say that she died of congestive heart failure.

Born Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor on February 27, 1932 in England to American parents, she came to live in the United States only in 1939 and appeared in her first movie at the age of 9.

The iconic actress who was known for her striking beauty was married eight times and won two Oscars in the 1960s for her roles in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ and ‘Butterfield 8.’ She also starred in critically acclaim movies such as ‘National Velvet’, ‘A Place In The Sun’, ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ and ‘Cleopatra’ in the 50s and in the 60s.

Taylor will be laid to rest with fellow legends Marilyn Monroe, Walter Mathau, Farrah Fawcett and Dean Martin at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and friend of Dame Elizabeth Taylor.

Here’s a nice tribute of vintage photos.

Here’s Elizabeth Taylor as ‘Cleopatra‘.

Farewell to the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. May you rest in peace.

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Former Presidential girlfriend Shalani Soledad is hugging headlines nowadays since she entered show business.

First, she was rumored to have a lovechild but a dear aunt defended that she has none. Secondly, she is being linked to co-host Willie Revillame. Then now – rumor has it that Shalani is angry with Kris Aquino because the latter has allegedly intervened with a ‘Bench’ endorsement!

So, can she stand the heat?

Maybe or maybe not.

But I think at the end of the day, she should think further.

Would she like to be recognized as a serious politician? Or as a famous celebrity?

Here’s my two cents over the matter:

Well, while I agree that entering showbiz could give her numerous votes during election, it can also hinder because looks like her ‘celebrity status’ is not heading to a positive outcome.

So, what do you think?

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Amanda Griffin goes topless on Rogue Magazine this December.

The last issue for the year also features stories such as “The Greatest Gadgets of 2010?, “The Secret History of the Visayas Russians”, “Why Every Man Needs a Leather Jacket”, “10 Fil-Am Editors Who Define American Media” and “Is the Church Killing Our Country?”

Rogue Magazine December 2010 issue is now available at all magazine stands, bookstores and selected supermarkets nationwide.

Don’t forget to grab a copy!

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Looks like EJ Salamante is getting famous each day…

The gay guy who sang like Beyonce at Eat Bulaga’s segment ‘Juan For All, All For Juan’ is now making waves on the internet and on You Tube. In fact —  even Perez Hilton thinks EJ he could put Beyonce to shame.

Hmmm, sounds like a compliment!

Check out his superb performance right after the jump!

Move over Vice Ganda – here’s a fierce competition.

Watch out!

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