Yahoo Inc., the second most popular search engine, said in its official blog site last week that among the billions of searches that course through Yahoo!, there are bound to be oodles of misspellings. "After all, one reason that people search is to figure out an unfamiliar concept, like who the heck this Justine Bieber (aka Justin Bieber) is, or where can you get these Zoo Zoo Pets (aka Zhu Zhu Pets) that the kids are yammering about."

In honour of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Yahoo! took a look at some of the top misspelled or misheard searches.
Some of the top misspelled/misheard searches on Yahoo! in 2011 have been:

-- 72 virginians: for 72 virgins, following the death of Osama bin Laden

-- Which american idol has turrets - for which American Idol has Tourette's

-- Defensive marriage act - for Defense of Marriage ActTurnoble russia meltdown - for Chernobyl Russia meltdown

-- Alice and chains - for Alice in Chains

-- Super bowel commercials - for Super Bowl commercials

-- How old is McJagger? - for How old is Mick Jagger

Yahoo! added that it consistently sees misspelled searches for famous people and brands, some of the top misspelled are:

-- Justin Beaver, Justine Bieber - for Justin Bieber

-- louie vaton purses - for Louis Vuitton purses

-- Wallmart - for Walmart

-- Katie Perry - for Katy Perry

-- Brittany Spears - for Britney Spears

-- Paperview boxing - for "pay per view boxing"

-- Swain flu, swan flu, wine flu - for swine flu

-- Dancing with the Starts - Dancing with the Stars

-- Obama Bin Laden - for Osama Bin Laden

Yahoo trails Google in Internet queries. According to comScore, Inc., in the U.S. for example, Google had 65.4 percent of search queries in April. Yahoo! and Microsoft (Bing) took the second and third spots with 15.7 percent and 13.9 percent of the U.S. market.Bill Gates' Microsoft entered into a 10-year agreement former rival Yahoo! to boost its market share in search queries.

Yahoo! said last month it is giving its e-mail service a long due facelift in a bid to make its widely popular e-mail service more appealing. Yahoo! is hoping that the newly redesigned e-mail service will retain and woo back email users as more people are flocking to search giant Google's Gmail. According to research firm comScore Inc., Yahoo! at present has more active users with 277 million users worldwide, compared to Gmail's 220 million.