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citizen journalism
America Freaking Out Over Old Navy's Blow-Laced Flip-Flop Sale
Apparently, Old Navy's selling drug-dipped flip-flops (yay!), because people are Googling the shit out of them. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by noonecaresowen: The funny thing is, I think they're regularly $2.50. Would you stand in line for an hour to save... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Julia Allison Now Mostly Famous for Dancing with a Quarterback
Dating columnist Julia Allison must be figuring that everything she has done is meaningless compared to someone paid to throw a ball around. Her Internet popularity has peaked after her dalliance with a football player. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Disco-Johnson: If he starts dating her, as a Bears fan, I will kill myself. 7 Responses | Other threads
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fake trends
The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
An airplane flies into two vertical objects: For many ordinary New Yorkers, it's a horrible, still-living memory. For Internet commenters, it's absolutely hilarious. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Well, it certainly merits the echo chambering you so neatly provided it with. I like your stuff, Owen. Really, I... 10 Responses | Other threads
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hackers
Stupid rock band totally pwns Google
Google'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." More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by macbeach: The rest of the things on that list (which I never reference except when a story like this comes up)... more » | Other threads
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meltdowns
Americans more interested in "cupcakes" than "financial crisis"
Want 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]
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By Jackson WestComment by bdombrow: So that's what I've been doing wrong. I'm supposed to search for wizards and sex toys on the weekends and... more » | Other threads
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politics
Sarah Palin's typo-ridden LinkedIn profile
A tipster discovered Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's LinkedIn profile, typos and all. LinkedIn says it's legitimate — we just wonder which unlucky intern got the chore of typing it in. 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 numerous searches for "Sarah Palin Vogue Magazine," "Sarah Palin Photos," "Sarah Palin Bikini Photos," "Sarah Palin Nude," and "Sarah Palin Naked." John McCain was a handsome man in his bomber-pilot youth, but not many of us feel the need to see him naked now. The Internet's obsession for Sarah Palin, according to the Google Trends chart below, knows no bounds. More »
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google trends
The People of the Philippines Love Gossip Girl and Other Google Trends Discoveries
Google 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. More » -
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Mixing Your Fat Tuesdays And Your Super Ones
On this, the eve of the first state primary in years where the outcome is not already a horrifically boring given, rest assured the fate of the country is finally in the hands of the wise and wonderful people who search for stuff on the Internets. Some of the hottest Google search terms today?- #6 "where do i vote"
- #12 "what is super tuesday"
- #23 "fat tuesday"
- #31 "am i registered to vote"
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By MaggieComment by traydon_barter: Um, actually? It is Super Fat Tuesday, in the sense that today is both Super Tuesday and Mardi Gras. more » | Other threads
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Gaming The Google
Yesterday 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.
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By MaggieComment by PirateHooker: for pedestrians, I'll allow the excuse that h and k are on either side of j on the keyboard. and,... more » | Other threads
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Howie Mandel Behind Waverly Inn Google Ranking
UPDATE: Under what circumstances exactly could Carter's elite spot become one of the most queried terms on the Internet on a Friday in January?
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By MaggieComment by dcunstrukt: It's unfortunate that it's Zagat rating fell after Howie's attendance though. more » | Other threads
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Waverly Inn Storms The Internet
The 79th most searched item on Google Trends today? Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's power crowd restaurant, the no-reservation "Waverly Inn." Either New York is taking over the Internet or the rest of the world is taking the day off. More »
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By MaggieComment by PandoraSpocks: That's nothin'. Monday Regis and Kelly have accidentally booked Riskay, thinking she's the new Beyonce. more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Yahoo and eBay doing great in Google searches
Yahoo and eBay, two companies that survived the bubble just to get outclassed by some Stanford pricks, cut a deal that embeds each deep inside the other's pants. EBay's PayPal system will handle Yahoo payments, and Yahoo will handle all third-party graphical ads on eBay. More »
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