Not surprisingly, Michael Jackson’s death this year topped Yahoo’s charts for the maximum no. of searches.

The list released on December 1 2009, reveled that the star singer’s stunning death on June 25, 2009, made him Yahoo’s biggest star this year, topping the Internet company’s annual breakdown of the most frequent online search requests.

MJ’s sudden death news almost created a panic worldwide and a quest to find out what happened to Jackson in his final hours on June 25 accounted or millions of clueless users frantically looking for the news and updates on Yahoo’s search engine.

With this, widely acknowledged as the ‘King of Pop’ MJ, ended singer Britney Spears’ four-year reign atop Yahoo’s search rankings.

With Google Inc., the largest online search engine, aiming to release it’s own list late this month, MJ relates searches are expected to top the over-all ratings for the year.

Besides MJ, the other new entrants on Yahoo’s Top 10 list this year were, ‘Twilight’ at the second position, ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ actress Megan fox at no. 4 and others. Us president Barack Obama made Yahoo’s top searches list in 2008.

Michael Jackson, one of the biggest musical icons of modern times, died on Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was fifty and left behind three children.

Creator of record-breaking pop albums like Thriller and Bad, Michael Jackson had been suffering from a series of health problems. According to paramedical sources, Jackson was not breathing when medical help arrived at his rented home in response to an emergency call. The paramedic staff performed CPR on him and was immediately rushed to the UCLA hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. Within minutes of the announcement of his death, fans from everywhere began to gather outside the hospital in memory of one of the greatest musical talent of these times.

However, last year Jackson announced that he will be coming back on stage for one final time and the concert planned for July this year in London. According to reports, 75000 tickets were sold out within just four hours of opening ticket sales. The program in July would have been Jackson’s first proper concert tour in twelve years.

In recent years, Michael Jackson had been involved in a series of controversies regarding personal and financial matters. He had been forced to move out of his home Neverland and was practically living as a recluse.

The glittery glove famously worn by former pop idol Michael Jackson in his 1983 video for the hit song ‘Billie Jean’ is up for sale. Sources say that the glove will be auctioned off in April, together with more than 2,000 items from the ‘Neverland Ranch,’ Jackson’s home for over 15 years, until he abandoned in the aftermath of his 2005 acquittal on charges that he molested a young male visitor there.

According to celebrity memorabilia specialist Julien’s Auctions, which announced the auction Wednesday, the sale will also include the entry gates to Neverland Ranch as well many of the amusement and arcade devices that Jackson installed at Neverland to make his own private amusement park. In addition to the collection of memorabilia from Jackson’s own career the auction will also feature numerous fine art pieces and other pop culture memorabilia.

The auction came just weeks after the financially-troubled Jackson sold Neverland to a company that owned the mortgage on the property and which now plans to redevelop the 1,100 hectare ranch. Jackson’s possessions will be on display from February onwards in a highlights tour that according to Julien’s will visit major cities worldwide.