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The Death of Nikki Catsouras and the Ugly Underbelly of the Web

Danny — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:56:09 +0000

Nikki Catsouras and her tragic death in her father’s Porsche have shown us a more sinister side to the web. Although news organisations have generally been sensitive and offered limited coverage of this story (a search on Google news for “Nikki Catsouras” at the time of writing brings up very few results), the web was [...]

Oh dear, Google Trends #1 Hot Search today is “what to do if inside of girl gets wet”

Danny — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:03:52 +0000

Apologies in advance for this post. It is presented here for scientific reasons only…

And I kid you not. Here is the screenshot:

There seem to have been some problems with Google Trends over the last 24 hours with the content not updating for a while, and then this one rose to the [...]

Mozilla brand is strong! Mozilo’s PR is whoops! (Did I really click “Reply All”?)

Danny — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:00 +0000

If you got here through a search engine in the past few hours, you are very likely to have typed “Realty Check: Who sparked Countrywide CEO Mozilla’s “disgusting” e-mail reply?”

Yep, this is one of those geeky entries, but it does suggest that search is a great reflection of social trends. Here’s how:

When The [...]