Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Sometimes Google reflects our sadness

The current top eight searches on Hot Trends all relate to a heartbreaking story: Police have found the body of Kelsey Smith, who was abducted at a Target in Overland Park, Kansas, on Saturday. The searches are for Kelsey Smith, for findkelsey.com (currently offline -- the Google cache is here), and for Kansas City area news stations:

  1. kshb tv
  2. kelsey smith
  3. kansas city news
  4. find kelsey
  5. findkelsey.com
  6. kmbc
  7. kctv5
  8. www.findkelsey.com
(For those of you new to this blog or unfamiliar with Hot Trends -- if you click on these links, you'll find relevant news, blog, and web results, collected by Google for these searches.)

I started this blog for fun -- and often it is. On a less happy note, I've previously commented on arguably sexist or repugnant searches. But on occasions like this, I realize again that Google is used to find everything in the world ... even the saddest things.

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