Tracking the bizarre things people suddenly search for on Google.
Well, Google Trends does love the strange creatures of this world and apparently. We’re fascinated with them as well (actually, you’re fascinated, I didn’t search for any of these things). Today it’s Montauk Monsters, Alligator Gars, and Fishgators. A few months ago, the big hit was Giant Sea Spiders. What ever happened to searching for [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: animals | Comments
An anonymous reader solved the mystery! I noted in my post yesterday that wigeon and french vanilla ice cream made it back into Google Hot Trends (see the picture above) after showing up mysteriously back in February. I had no idea then why these two would show up suddenly for no reason and had no [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Mystery, Television, Trends Rule, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Connection | Comments
For my very observant readers, you’ll see that once again wigeons and french vanilla ice cream have both made it into Google Hot Trends. I say observant not because I assume you can read the words above, but because you might recall that I once wrote about this exact same topic.
I thought that these two [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: A Little Bit of Everything, Mystery, animals | Comments
Dateline MSNBC is really taking this whole “Green” thing to a new level. It had a major story yesterday about them helping people find missing money. It’s a great feel good story in tough economic times. They even had shot like this one showing the unexpected glee on shocked people’s faces as they were told [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: News, Television | Comments
Most of my frequent visitors know that it’s pretty rare that I decide to comment on something outside the top 10 in Google Trends, but today is one of those days. I got really bored with all the other options presented to me. As is pretty common, there’s always an athlete in trouble on the [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Mystery, animals | Comments
With all the talk and interest about T. Boone Pickens, I decided not to write about him. It was too obvious and too easy. Pickens…even his name says it would be easy to poke fun at him. I prefer more of a challenge. So, when magnapinnidae popped up on Google Hot Trends, I knew it [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Mystery, Science | Comments
Popping into the number one spot on Google Hot Trends is a painter that most people have never heard of, Marc Chegall. Another Google Trends mystery for me to solve. This one was pretty simple.
For those landing on Google’s classic, clean homepage, your normal Google logo was replaced with this image. Like most times Google [...]
Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Art, google | Comments
In my constant quest to figure out why certain terms appear out of nowhere in Google Trends when no one in the world should be searching for them, I occasionally solve the mystery. I’ve solved a few of these mysteries including the odd Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Connection or the Howard Stern Connection. [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: Mystery, connections | Comments
Charities Supported By Solving Google Trends' Mysteries:
Courtesy of Tara's work on Wigeons and French Vanilla Ice Cream
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