As it happens every year, Yahoo revealed the top ten most popular searches on their portal. Much to everyone’s surprise, searches related to Britney Spears outdid the ones related to the president-elect, Barack Obama, which came in the third position, after the famous pop singer and World Wrestling Entertainment.

The pop-culture isn’t represented only by Britney Spears. In the top ten there were also Miley Cyrus (No. 4), Jessica Alba (No. 6), Lindsey Lohan (No.7) and Angelina Jolie (No. 9).

Despite the singer’s ups and downs, “Britney Spears” was the most popular searched term in the last 7 years. And she made it in the first place for a fourth year in a row.

Senior Editor of Yahoo Buzz, Vera Chan, explains that all the troubles that Britney had in her personal life, the loss of her children's custody which went to her ex-husband Kevin Federline, the problems she had with the law, paparazzi never giving up and, eventually, the work for her latest album and her fight to recover brought her an increasing popularity.

"She was number one last year for all the wrong reasons, and this year for all the right reasons,” Chan said. She told the BBC that people usually like redemption tales and that Britney couldn't have had such troubles and stories in her life and at the same time have nobody interested in them.

Britney’s “redemption” is confirmed by the many prizes she won lately. She won three awards at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, another two at the MTV Europe Music Awards and was voted as Best International Pop Star at the Bambi Awards in Germany. She also appeared last night on ITV1's X Factor. Spears delivered the show’s highest audience viewing numbers at 12.6 million. The singer has been in a mini tour across Europe, to promote her new album, “Circus.”