Saddam Hussein, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton

What does the former leader of Iraq have in common with these two party girls?

Wordtracker publishes a report that shows the top search terms used on various meta-search engines like Dogpile and Metacrawler. Wordtracker’s Top 300 Surge Report shows the top results from the past 48 hours, and the top ten are:

1. saddam hussein execution
2. saddam execution video
3. saddam hanging video
4. saddam hussein
5. saddam
6. saddam hanging
7. saddam execution
8. saddam hussein hanging
9. britney spears
10. paris hilton

Apparently blood lust trumps plain old lust. Unfortunately, the complete list doesn’t get much better.