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How Justin Bieber Caught a Contagious Syphilis Rumor
Maureen O'Connor · 06/14/10 06:15PMMeet John Munson, Self-Proclaimed Gadabout
The Cajun Boy · 07/28/09 09:59PMAmerica Freaking Out Over Old Navy's Blow-Laced Flip-Flop Sale
Foster Kamer · 05/23/09 11:00AMJulia Allison Now Mostly Famous for Dancing with a Quarterback
Owen Thomas · 04/14/09 03:38PMThe Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
Owen Thomas · 01/06/09 02:30PMStupid rock band totally pwns Google
Paul Boutin · 10/10/08 12:40PMGoogle's Hot Trends page has been gamed before, but today's #1 spot is the best ever — a dorky-white-guys rock band named Captain Caucasian and the Raging Idiots. No KKK references, just a bunch of guys with guitars and a singer whose baseball cap is two sizes too big. While we wait for Clay Shirky and Cory Doctorow to explain how this is a huge, huge victory for real people over the evil corporate monster that is the music industry, Google, or maybe it's Starbucks, I crawled through the band's traffic-slammed website to dig up their video for "Bust a Move."
Americans more interested in "cupcakes" than "financial crisis"
Jackson West · 09/25/08 05:40PMWant to know why newspapers are dying? Because they've been running boring cover stories about that confusing economic meltdown on Wall Street instead of what Americans really care about — stuff like wizards, cupcakes and sex toys. Bristol Palin headlines can stay above the fold, though. Online searchers love them some pregnant teenagers with high school-dropout baby daddies. [Mother Jones]
Sarah Palin's typo-ridden LinkedIn profile
Nicholas Carlson · 09/10/08 01:20PMA tipster's discovered Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's LinkedIn profile and handily pointed out the poor intern who had to put it together's typos. Surprised anyone bothered to find it? Don't be. According to Google Trends, Sarah Palin gets more search queries than either of the two men at the top of the tickets. Probably doesn't hurt that Google counts what Hitwise says are the very many searches for "Sarah Palin Vogue Magazine," "Sarah Palin Photos," "Sarah Palin Bikini Photos," "Sarah Palin Nude," and "Sarah Palin Naked." With his strong cheek bones and steely-eyed stare, John McCain is a very handsome man, but not many of us need to see him naked. The Internet's obsession for Sarah Palin, according to the Google Trends chart below, seems to know no bounds.
The People of the Philippines Love Gossip Girl and Other Google Trends Discoveries
Richard Lawson · 07/30/08 02:21PMGoogle Trends is a fun yet depressing tool which can show you search trends for various terms like "cat leash" or "where are my wife and kids?" Recently some trickster at RivalFish put in dirty terms like "bukkake" and "ladyboy" to see what cities are searching the most for what. (Honolulu for both of those, as it turns out.) Yay dirty words! That amusing data can be found here, and after the jump we've done a little mini Gawker-themed geographical Google trend reporting.
Mixing Your Fat Tuesdays And Your Super Ones
Maggie · 02/04/08 05:42PMGaming The Google
Maggie · 01/24/08 02:53PMYesterday we poked fun at the Huffington Post for tagging their Heath Ledger posts with Tuesday's second fastest-rising Google search term "Keith Ledger." But according to commenters, tipsters and your mom, it turns out they did it on purpose, in order to catch web traffic from the legions of deaf, misspelling Google searchers who have never read USWeekly ever.