Social sites topped 2006 searches

Social networking dominated Web searches this past year, Britain’s VNUNET reports. “Bebo took the crown as the most searched for term throughout the year, followed by MySpace.” Not surprisingly “World Cup” came in third, followed by video-sharing site Metacafe.com. But YouTube didn’t even make the Top 10 (“video” was No. 7). And Internet News reports that social networking “rocked the [Internet] industry” in 2006, adding that the surge in high-speed Net connections was a huge factor.