Whilst searching for CNN transcripts, I stumbled across this old press release from the Lycos Top 50 search site. Hmmm. Look at the list: 13 of the top 20 searches (and seven of the top ten) were women, including top ten finishers Katie Couric, Paula Zahn, Greta Van Susteren, Ashley Banfield, Laurie Dhue, Suze Orman and Rudi Bakhtiar. The press release tells us:

Laurie Dhue, a young anchor for FOX News, has been getting web searches ever since September 11, when she was the breakout news star of the post-attack coverage. Even more surprising are the searches for Rudi Bakhtiar of CNN Headline News--a lot of curious Web searchers seem to feel she breaks out of the anonymous Headline News mold. Both of these women get more searches than Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, or Connie Chung. Robin Meade from CNN Headline News, while not as popular as Bakthiar, also gets more searches than many better-known hosts.

Okay, maybe Lycos was surprised, but I'm certainly not: I'm betting a fair number of those searches have absolutely nothing to do with news. Instead, they're from men who not only think Ms. Bakhtiar "breaks out of the anonymous Headline News mold," but also fervently hope she's broken out of those anonymous Headline News clothes in a drunken "News Girls Gone Wild" moment.

Of course, I don't know this for sure. But I can tell you it's nearly impossible to find authentic photos of Paula Zahn posing in lingerie.