The search engine keeps track of the Web queries that show the largest spike each month. A disease, a hot book and an even hotter videotape occupied our minds this year.
--S.G.
JANUARY Joe Millionaire (Fox TV hit debuts)
FEBRUARY NASA (the space shuttle Columbia blows up on Feb. 1)
MARCH Al-Jazeera (Gulf War II starts)
APRIL SARS (worldwide scare over the epidemic)
MAY Matrix (Reloaded opens on May 15)
JUNE Harry Potter (a new volume--at last--hits stores at midnight, June 21)
JULY Tour de France (Lance again)
AUGUST MSBlast (computer virus strikes on Aug. 11)
SEPTEMBER Hurricane Isabel (rocks...
