Yahoo!7 Pulse

There's been a whole lot of rumbling going on in Search as anxious Searchers dial up the latest news on the asteroid (+1135.30%) which narrowly averted slamming into the earth this week.

The tragic tale of Heath Ledger continues to affect everyone from the women in his life - Michelle Williams who this week spiked 9263.64% - to his film 'The Dark Knight' which has attracted a 550% surge in lookups.

'Live fast, die young', James Dean was the first to pen the phrase and Heath Ledger, like Dean, has come to epitomise it after he was found dead in New York. Shocked online audiences have turned to the web for comfort and clarity on hearing the astounding news, typing in queries such as 'Heath Ledger dead - what happened'.

The Search box almost exploded after a crisis in Australia's financial markets went into meltdown and world stock markets fell sharply causing finance-related queries to soar.

OK so I buy into hype and so it seems do the rest of you. Cloverfield was a true example of viral marketing on steroids. On last count, this monster movie celebrated a 2241.98% spike this past week alone.

She's the leggy, Russian blonde who this week whipped American sweetheart Lindsay Davenport. Maria Sharapova is also the most sought after tennis star du jour online, spiking 3,876.47% this past week alone, even trumping news on Cypriot tennis star Marcos Baghdatis currently embroiled in a racial scandal.

Ok, so Paris Hilton's not in the line-up for a future incarnation as a Stepford, we mean, Scientology wife but just in case you haven't heard, Tom Cruise is a man on a mission to spread the word of Scientology around the globe. Online, searchers are going crazy scouring the web for that scary video of Cruise extolling the praises of Scientology, a religion widely believed to be a cult. In the video, Cruise proselytises on different facets of Scientology. Much like a Britney meltdown, he's both horrifying and strangely compelling to watch

Not since the wedding of Bollywood princess Aishwarya Rai or general celebrity weddings have we seen such an interest in all things matrimonial online. 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue', is the theme in Search this week as blushing brides-to-be seek to nut out all the details for their upcoming weddings (+3600%).

Well the carbs were going to her thighs so she's replaced food with sex. Ah LiLo, when are you ever going to get a normal addiction like coffee or shopping? No matter, the populace loves her or at least loves to loathe her, or simply just wants to hear what she's been running over and who she's been bedding lately.

With the onset of the new year, it's not only time for an improved you, perhaps it time's for a new ringtone.

You're stumbling through the post New Year's haze and wondering how you can avoid stressing yourself out with that trip to the Supermarket.

Work, shmerk eh? So you're still on holidays and you didn't feel like doing anything more than whipping out your guitar-shaped controller and tapping into your inner gamer.

You partied hard on the eve of '08 dialling up queries for New Year's Eve party ideas, fireworks and then you thought you'd better resolve to make those pesky but necessary new year's resolutions, or at least check out what everyone else was resolving themselves to do.