Died in a Blogging Accident
I keep a Google Trends Gadget on my iGoogle search page to check out what the world cares about. Todays Top ten had me laughing.
First off, far too many people are watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" Not only that, they are cheating while playing at home. If you have to use Google then you aren't.
Second, I was intrigued by todays #6 entry. Searching on it didn't explain much until I came across this at xkcd.com.
Nicely done, not only is it funny (as always with xkcd) , it also skewed Google's trend tracker. XKCD is one of my favorites and it's worth anyones time who enjoys geek humor. If you've never seen it before, be prepared to waste the next hour or so of your life.
MrCopilot
update 8:20am: There are now 1440 results from google making it the # 1 most dangerous on the list. I'm glad my warped sense of humor is shared.
update 24 hrs later: Over 7,ooo results. I should really think about getting out of such a dangerous business.
Update 8:15pm Just for Ken.: 11,600 Results
First off, far too many people are watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" Not only that, they are cheating while playing at home. If you have to use Google then you aren't.
Second, I was intrigued by todays #6 entry. Searching on it didn't explain much until I came across this at xkcd.com.
Nicely done, not only is it funny (as always with xkcd) , it also skewed Google's trend tracker. XKCD is one of my favorites and it's worth anyones time who enjoys geek humor. If you've never seen it before, be prepared to waste the next hour or so of your life.
MrCopilot
update 8:20am: There are now 1440 results from google making it the # 1 most dangerous on the list. I'm glad my warped sense of humor is shared.
update 24 hrs later: Over 7,ooo results. I should really think about getting out of such a dangerous business.
Update 8:15pm Just for Ken.: 11,600 Results
Comments
I wonder how much people died in a googling accident in process.
died in a blogging accident
d8
incidentally, "died in a knitting accident has gone up quite a bit for some strange reason
And they posted it a few days before the XKCD strip, so maybe that was part of his inspiration?
try googling "died *in* a blogging accident"- it makes a lot of difference d8
current count is now 8080 and pretty much leveled off
i dunno- i'm only getting 8010 results. but maybe you're using a newer version of google d8
Try reloading.
Now it went down a little
As of now 10900
do you believe in paralell universes? cuz i think that's what we're in (:
i just used the link from your comments and all i got wuz 1830...
now i know i'm in a parlell universe...
my google's broken- i can't get over 8k ):
MySpace deaths can probably be considered death by blogging.
There's also a list of possible ways to die via blogging accident here.
Results 1 - 10 of about 269,000 for died in a blogging accident. (0.08 seconds
...Come on, people, let's push this higher. I want to see "died in a blogging accident" hit 500k. :D
gah.
cheers.
chrissy
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6,110,000
dont forget the "" dumbass
"died in a googlewhack accident": 0 hits
"died in a googlewhacking accident": 0 hits
so they're not even googlewhacks. I shall have to create a page so it will get that holy-of-holy single hit.
"died in a blagging accident": TWO HITS! w00t.
and with any luck, the page is old enough now that it's unlikely to go up
hehehe :)
38 000 000
And just few minutes later got this result
38 400 000
About 4,980,000 results