Friday, May 16, 2008

And now a word from Bryan ...

... or how about 12 words out of the top 14:

1. 2007
2. chris
3. spears
4. cup
5. loans
6. idol
7. american
8. world
9. portia de rossi
10. irl
11. sports
12. gina peterson
13. britney
14. zxbfwwr

All of the one-word queries are coming mainly from Bryan, TX. (My favorite is "zxbfwwr.")

I suspect that some naughty student at Texas A&M is messing with Google. But for what purpose?

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Saturday's alright for siteing?

This morning, Hot Trends is dominated by the YouTube outage. Many of the queries include the words "site youtube.com." For example:

Since when does a typical user put the "site" operator (or any operator) in a query?