Yes, it had to be querried into the new Trends service: sex, porn and paris hilton. Interestingly enough, the majority of these searches come from countries outside the West; namely Egypt, India and Turkey. And for whatever reason, users in Seattle really like searching for porn.
Other notable querries include the on going Salma vs Friedrich Hayek popularity contest (one is an uber-mamacita, the other is a dead Nobel-winning economist). Apparently Friedrich isn’t a character people lookup often (nor is Mises or Rothbard) – Milton Friedman wins versus the late John Galbraith.
Wikipedia destroys querries for web 2.0 and AJAX.
And Bob Dole is the spokesman for the consistent winner the ultimate war of the spam: texas hold em, phentermine, vioxx, viagra.
Lasly, in an IM, Sean Lynch pointed out that it looks as if the developers are using the same graph tool from Google Finance — good facsimile.
See also Google’s own scripted zeitgeist.
[...] See also Google’s Zeitgeist and Google Trends. « Wait, weren’t they coming over here to do the same thing a few years back? [...]
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