Femmes fatales have locals calling Yahoo!

Globe Staff

Crooner Jackson Browne once sang about having seven women on his mind. And the Hub, it would seem, has also been giving a lot of thought to women lately.

Every week, the search engine Yahoo.com compiles a list of fast-spiking searches. There's a list of national searches, as well as lists for large urban areas, including Boston.

For whatever reason, women dominated this week's list of fast-spiking searches in the Boston area, with locals looking to learn more about Sheila chanteuses, tennis vixens, and Hollywood actresses, Yahoo.com said.

Topping off the list is Kara DioGuardi, the American Idol judge who just got the sack. (She's shown at right in happier times in a Reuters file photo.)

Nationwide, Yahoo.com reported fast-spiking searches on physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking and Robert Schimmel, the comic who died recently. There was also national interest in the oil rig explosion as well as in actresses Kaitlin Olson and Mischa Barton.

Olson and Barton couldn't crack Boston's top five list of fast-spiking list, though.

For good or ill, here's the Hub's list of recent fast-spiking searches, according to Yahoo.com. Besides DioGuardi, the local list includes Natalie Imbruglia, an Australian singer-songwriter, model, and actress; actress Lorraine Bracco, Nicole Vaidišová of tennis fame, and actress Bridget Fonda.