MANILA, Philippines — The Senate has adopted a resolution commending Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago for being a recipient of two popular online searches launched namely by Female Network and Google and emerging as one of the top most influential Filipinas in the country.

“The website Female Network.com, which records an average of four million to five million page views per day and the globally famous search engine, Google.com, released the list of the Ten Womanity Awardees and the Top Twenty Most Influential Filipinas of 2010, respectively, citing Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago as one of the awardees. We congratulate her,” Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada said in the authoring Senate Resolution No. 437.

Estrada said this is not the first time the feisty senator had received awards which recognized her mettle particularly in the fight for corruption.

In 1988, Santiago was named Laureate of the Asian Nobel Prize, known as the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service where she was cited for her bold and moral leadership in cleaning up a graft-ridden government agency, Estrada recalled.

During the commemoration of the International Women’s Day last March 11, 2011, Santiago was part of the list of the Top 10 Womanity Awards of the Female Network and Google’s Top 20 Most Influential Filipinas of 2010.

Apart from these recognitions, Estrada said Santiago was also recipient of a judicial excellence awards from civic groups when she was appointed Regional Trial Court judge in 1993.

She was noted as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Professionals of the Philippine Jaycees and the Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service of the Philippine Lions.