Simply put, Jessica Alba doesn’t need a trip to rehab, endless overexposure or a high profile trip to jail to get you searching. Her performances in blockbuster films have been enough to make her a perennial fixture in Hotlist’s Top 20 search chart throughout the year and for her to be crowned as Hotlist’s Woman of the Year 2007.

Jessica’s search success built slowly throughout the year. In March, she ranked a distant 18th place in Hotlist’s chart of the Top 100 most searched for women. However, your online interest in her surged in May when she was announced as FHM’s Sexiest Woman of 2007 in the UK and the US. Recording over 8 million votes, Jessica claimed top spot ahead of glamour model Keeley Hazell, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, Brazilian model Adriana Lima and fellow movie actress Scarlett Johansson.

And it wasn’t just the readers of FHM hailing her beauty. Viewers of American network Spike TV voted Jessica their Hottest Female while lingerie chain Victoria’s Secret named her as their Sexiest Female Celebrity. For the second successive year, she ranked second in Maxim magazine’s Hot 100 narrowly losing out to Lindsay Lohan.

Silver screen search star

The peak of Jessica Alba’s search success followed the release of the movie Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in which she reprised her role as superhero Sue Storm. Both Alba and the film itself were among the most popular searches in June and Jessica recorded an average of 5,455 Live Search queries per day.

Jessica’s further film outings in 2007 ensured she remained one of your most searched for movie stars for the remainder of the year. September saw the release of Good Luck Chuck, a comedy in which she played penguin trainer Cam Wexler opposite co-star Dane Cook. She looks sure to repeat her search success in 2008 when she will reprise her role as Nancy Callahan in semi-animated sequel Sin City 2.