SAN FRANCISCO, US: United States President-elect Barack Obama's victory in the November polls got more clicks than any other story on yahoo.com this year - but the most searched term was "Britney Spears", Yahoo! Inc reported yesterday.

In the top 10 searches, Spears - incredibly, the most popular search term for seven of the past eight years - was followed by World Wrestling Entertainment and then by Mr Obama, Yahoo! said.

Among the rest on Yahoo!'s top 10 list, amid its billions of searches, was a manga cartoon.

These searches were respectively for TV actress Miley Cyrus, online game RuneScape, actress Jessica Alba, Japanese manga cartoon series Naruto, actresses Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie, and reality TV talent show American Idol.

Among special categories singled out by Yahoo!, the only non-presidential or vice-presidential candidate to make the

Top 10 Politicians list was California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at No. 9.

The top 10 political search terms were Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, George Bush, Ron Paul, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Schwarzenegger and Mitt Romney.

Yahoo! said the most searched news stories were on hurricanes, Caylee and Casey Anthony, election 2008, Pakistan, pregnant man, China, Iraq, Shelley Malil, Patrick Swayze and Afghanistan.

What were all those stories, anyway? Go search.--REUTERS