Thursday, 10th February 2005 (4023 views)

A leading search engine has found that rings are proving popular this Valentine's Day, with internet users becoming more romantic with their searches.

Lycos released the search engine results, giving details of the most popular search terms relating to Valentine's Day based on the Lycos 50, a weekly list of the most popular people, places and things.

The survey showed that gold engagement rings were the ninth most popular engagement ring search item, with diamond rings the most popular.

"If web search activity is any indication, we are more romantic this Valentine's Day compared to last year," said writer Dean Tsouvalas.

Jewellery was a popular search item with internet users overall, as people get prepared for this Valentine's.

However, findings also indicate that women are doing more searching than men, with searches for romantic gifts for him, found to be outnumbering those for women.

 

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