Jessica Alba is hot, Britney Spears is third in the Top 20, and Amy Winehouse is 10th, according to another unknown feature of Microsoft Live Search: Celebrity xRank (beta). The About says:
Celebrity xRank provides a fun and fast way to follow the fickle finger of fame. Drawing from a big list of celebs, you and all other Live Search users determine whether a certain someone rises or falls in the rankings. We compare searches throughout the day for Hollywood heavyweights, radio darlings, trend-setters, athletes, politicians, and other notables. The result is a cultural snapshot of who's hot and who's not.
If you click on Videos (see screenshot, above) then you get the roll-over effect mentioned below.
However, CxR doesn't have Hilary Hahn, or Evgeny Kissin and even Nige is only in 6,463rd place, so the results clearly need expanding and breaking into subcategories.
But the idea could be used for a wider range of celebrities, including footballers etc, if it gets some sort of following among pop fans. Which seems far from likely unless Microsoft does, say, a widget that lets fan sites add it to their own pages.
