Best in Blogs: All the Most Awesome Top 10 Lists of the Year  Top Stories for the Week of Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 2009
It's time for the "Top [Blank] of 2009" lists and "Top [Blank] of the Decade" lists and there's literally a [blank]-load of stuff getting cut-and-pasted and linked to all over blogotopia. Yahoo, Google and Bing have revealed the year's top Web searches. Says Switched: "2009 looks like it'll go down as the year of vampires and a dead pop star that looked like a vampire." Michael Jackson led both Yahoo and Google's annual "Zeitgeist" (that's German for time ghost!). "And a new star was born, too" adds The Official Google Blog. "Quirky pop singer Lady Gaga became a search sensation the world over" and the most Googled image on the Web. "Microsoft should have named its new version of Windows 'Lady Gaga'," says Marketing Pilgrim. Microsoft's Bing top search list has the usual suspects (Michael, Twitter, Swine Flu, Stock Market, Farrah Fawcett).  As usual, HuffPo makes the very most of somebody else's content with a photo slideshow of Google's Top 10. Technologizer rounds up all the lists, including the global Google fastest-rising list that includes four things you may never have heard of. Politics Daily likes Google's break-out of top searches about U.S. Senators: "No surprise, Ted Kennedy tops the Senate Google searches...second on the Senate list is Nelson, but the Google people don't tell us if this search is for Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) or Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) or if the American public searching for Nelson even knows there are two of them." Most important, Yahoo lists the top 10 blogs sought via search engine, from TMZ at #1 to mixed martial arts blog Sherdog in the 10-hole.
 Ask.com has gone ahead and released the year's top questions, "a refreshing departure from the usual fare seen on the end-of-year lists," says Search Engine Watch. No. 1 is "How much should I weigh?" But we like the three unanswerable questions that form the 5-7 sequence: What is MIley Cyrus' phone number? What is the meaning of life? When will the world end?
And there are plenty of other lists to list. Spinner has Todd Snider's Top 10 albums of the year but the top two are by Phish, so let's keep moving. Sleepwalking has compiled its own list of albums you've never heard of for its Top 10. White Lies.? Golden Silvers? Rumble Strips? Makes you want to ask for Miles Cyrus' phone number. Exploring the meaning of life, The Scientist has the year's top life sciences innovations, from the wildly popular BenchTop BioLevitator to the hunky Robert Pattinson of Twilight (uh, not really). Inside Movies has the top 10 movie trailers.  It's not just the end of a year--the decade is wrapping up too. Going for the decade one year at a time, The Playlist is out with its Top 10 Films of 2002. (Solaris? Really?) Flavorwire lists the top 10 shows of the decade with as art. PopEater's top pop albums of the decade gives Justin Timberlake its top spot with high praise: "FutureSex/LoveSunds put him on the map as one of the great talents of his generation." A Journey Through Cinematic Heaven and Hell presents the top 5 actors and Top 5 actresses of the decade, with a defense of Nicole Kidman as "the best actress of her generation" and a rave to Johnny Depp for making pirates awesome.
 Some may find Moviedrome's top 20 films of the decade a little idiosyncratic (it starts with There Will be Blood, Apocalypto, and The Incredibles). Ahead of the Curve offers the Top 10 gadgets of the Decade, and finally the USB flash drive gets some overdue love. Destructoid's top 50 videogames of the decade offers thousands of hours of gameplay, and "any gamer on the planet should own, or at the very least play, every single game on this list." Going beyond 50, Invisible Oranges endorses (but does not reproduce) Decibel magazine's 100 greatest metal albums of the decade, saying it "may be the best $5.99 you'll ever spend." And The 9513 has the Top 100 country albums of the decade, if that's country enough for ya.
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