2008 June | Everyone But You

Electric Daisy Carnival Thumping Google Trends–June 28–9:20PM

Some really good news for me looking through Google Trends today. I see that the “Electric Daisy Carnival” made it into the top 10. That must mean there’s some pretty good interest in it, so it’s sure to be an amazing time. What? You don’t know what the Electric Daisy Carnival is? Holy mother of [...]

Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: A Little Bit of Everything, Press, Television, google, hollywood, music | Comments

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah? Must Be True…It’s on Google Trends–June 19–10:50 AM

You just can’t avoid writing something when a search term like “Tom Cruise Kills Oprah” pops up. It’s almost too good to be true. Of course, you’re wondering why they didn’t break into the morning game shows or why NBC didn’t immediately go into a 72-hour Oprah tribute or why you don’t see a low-speed [...]

Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Celebrities, Uncategorized | Comments

Subaru BRAT Jump Seats and All On Google Trends — June 18 — 2:10 PM

First, I’ll admit that I have no idea why the Subaru BRAT showed up on Google Hot Trends today. I tried to dig up a good reason, but couldn’t come up with one. Often, that would prevent me from writing a post so I don’t come off as having no idea about what I’m doing. [...]

Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Mystery, cars | Comments

Navy Federal Credit Union Power Out, But Up on Google — June 17 — 3:15 PM

I’ve been studying Google Hot Trends for a while now and pretty much when six of the 10 results are all related to the same thing, there’s usually a juicy problem to uncover. In this case, we’re talking about the Navy Federal Credit Union. It’s been all over Google Hot Trends all day. The newswires [...]

Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: A Little Bit of Everything, Trends Rule | Comments

What Do WPTZ, WNYT, WTEN, Capital News 9 and WRGB Have in Common? –June 10 -4:01 PM

I’ve noticed a number of times where a seemingly random list of television station names suddenly all pop up in Google Hot Trends at once. It took me a while to figure out why. Today I had my revelation courtesy of this map:

The TV stations in Google Hot Trends right now cover the area you [...]

Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: A Little Bit of Everything, weather | Comments

Tomato Recall Makes for Many an Awkward Moment — June 9 –3:30 PM

Just like I said in my post about Jeff Peckman, I never like to comment on stories outside the top 10 of Google Trends. So, I’m going to comment on a story outside the top 10…again. It’s my party after all.
Actually, there’s a good reason for this today. Google Hot Trends is dominated today by [...]

Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: A Little Bit of Everything | Comments

Google Trends Isn’t Updating, But Does Anyone Know? –June 3– 12:45 PM

Well, it’s been a good run.
I checked Google Trends today for a winning topic to write about only to find out that Google Trends hasn’t been updated all day. My handy change tracking software tells me that the trends were last updated around midnight, June 3, but Google Trends is typically updated about every 60 [...]

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Technology, grammar | Comments